Jane Hwang Degenhardt

Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 than death and as a sexual seduction. Degenhardt examines the stage's treatment of this intercourse of 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 even the Knights of Malta.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748643202
• Artikelnr.: 38225067

Autorenporträt

Jane Hwang Degenhardt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the co-editor (with Elizabeth Williamson) of Religion and Drama in Early Modern England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Turning Turk" and the Embodiment of Christian Faith and
Resistance; 1. Dangerous Fellowship: Universal Spirituality and its Bodily
Limits in The Comedy of Errors and Othello; 2. Recycled Models: Catholic
Martyrdom and Embodied Resistance to "Turning Turk"; 3. Engendering Faith:
Sexual Defilement and Spiritual Redemption in The Renegado; 4. Reforming
the Knights of Malta: Male Chastity and Temperance on the Early Modern
Stage; Coda: Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Greene's
Orlando Furioso.