Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage / Jane Hwang Degenhardt.

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Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

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9781474402378
1474402372
9780748643202
0748643206
9780748686551
074868655X
6612899778
9786612899775

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage.DDC classification:

822.30938297 22

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PR658.M87 D444 2010eb

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18.05

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Contents:

Cover -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction Seduction, Resistance, and Redemption: 8220;Turning Turk8221; and the Embodiment of Christian Faith -- Chapter 1 Dangerous Fellowship: Universal Faith and its Bodily Limits in The Comedy of Errors and Othello -- Chapter 2 Recycled Models: Catholic Martyrdom and Embodied Resistance to Conversion in The Virgin Martyr and Other Red Bull Plays -- Chapter 3 Engendering Faith: Sexual Defilement and Spiritual Redemption in The Renegado -- Chapter 4 8220;Reforming8221; the Knights of Malta: Male Chastity and Temperance in Five Early Modern Plays -- Epilogue Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Robert Greenes Orlando Furioso -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: This book explores the theme of Christian conversion to Islam in 12 early-modern English plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger and others. In these works, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both erotic and tragic: as a sexual seduction and a fate worse than death. Degenhardt examines the theatre's treatment of the intercourse between the Christian and Islamic faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture. In addition, she shows how England's encounter with Islam reanimated post-Reformation debates about the embodiment of Christian faith. As Degenhardt compellingly demonstrates, the erotics of conversion added fuel to the fires of controversies over Pauline universalism, Christian martyrdom, the efficacy of relics and rituals and the ideals of the Knights of Malta.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-258) and index.

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This book explores the theme of Christian conversion to Islam in 12 early-modern English plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger and others. In these works, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both erotic and tragic: as a sexual seduction and a fate worse than death. Degenhardt examines the theatre's treatment of the intercourse between the Christian and Islamic faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture. In addition, she shows how England's encounter with Islam reanimated post-Reformation debates about the embodiment of Christian faith. As Degenhardt compellingly demonstrates, the erotics of conversion added fuel to the fires of controversies over Pauline universalism, Christian martyrdom, the efficacy of relics and rituals and the ideals of the Knights of Malta.

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