Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
Author : Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-19
ISBN 10 : 9780748686551
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (686 downloads)
Download Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage PDF Format Full Free by Jane Hwang Degenhardt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse t