Three Turk plays from early modern England : Selimus, A Christian turned Turk, and The renegado / edited by Daniel J. Vitkus.

• Selimus, Emperor of the Turks / Robert Greene -- A Christian turned Turk / Robert Daborne -- The Renegado / Philip Massinger.

• "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire posed a clear and present danger to Christian rule in Europe. While English commerce with the Mediterranean world expanded, Ottoman forces invaded Greece, Hungary, and Austria. At the same time, "Turkish" pirates and renegades from North Africa roamed the Atlantic and raided the coast of England. The threat was ideological as well: English sailors captured by Barbary pirates sometimes renounced their faith and converted to Islam." "Here, three important early modern "Turk" plays - Robert Greene's Selimus, Emperor of the Turks (1594); Robert Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk (1612); and Philip Massinger's The Renegado (1623) - are available for the first time. These texts represent Islamic power and wealth in scenes of piracy on the high seas, on-stage execution by strangulation, and rites of religious conversion. The plays are set in historical and cultural context by Daniel J. Vitkus's clear and thoughtful introduction."--BOOK JACKET. 

Ämnesord

Kristendom och andra religioner  (sao)

Muslimska konvertiter  (sao)

Kristna konvertiter  (sao)

Kristendom  (sao)

English drama  -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Christianity and other religions  -- Islam -- Drama. (LCSH)

Muslim converts from Christianity  -- Drama. (LCSH)

Islam  -- Relations -- Christianity -- Drama. (LCSH)

Christian converts from Islam  -- Drama. (LCSH)

Engelsk dramatik  -- 1600-talet (sao)

Islam  -- Relationer (sao)

Christianity and other religions  (LCSH)

Muslim converts  (LCSH)

Christian converts  (LCSH)

Christianity  (LCSH)

Islamiska länder  (sao)

Tunisien  -- Tunis (sao)

Turkey  -- History -- Selim I, 1512-1520 -- Drama. (LCSH)

Islamic countries  -- Drama. (LCSH)

Tunis (Tunisia)  -- Drama. (LCSH)

Turkiet  -- historia -- 1500-talet (sao)

Genre

Dramatik  (saogf)

Personnamn

Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520 -- Drama.

Selim I, turkisk sultan, 1470-1520

Selim I, Sultan of the Turks, 1470-1520.

Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592 -- Authorship.

Klassifikation

PR1263 (LCC)

822/.4080351 (DDC)

18.05 (bcl)