Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-19
From Maurice to Muhammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism....Pages 21-33
Islam, Race, and Political Legitimacy in Ralegh’s The Life and Death of Mahomet ....Pages 35-51
Persian Icons, Shi‘a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage....Pages 53-72
The Tartar King’s Masque and Performances of Imperial Desire in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania ....Pages 73-95
Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India....Pages 97-121
“by my owne experience or the Most probablest Relation off others”: Manuscript Travel Writing and Peter Mundy’s “Relation” of Constantinople (1617–20)....Pages 123-138
Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory....Pages 139-158
“Now will I be a Turke”: Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe’s The Courageous Turk....Pages 159-171
The Frontiers of Twelfth Night....Pages 173-196
“A Turk’s mustachio”: Anglo-Islamic Traffic and Exotic London in Ben Jonson’s Every Man out of His Humour and Entertainment at Britain’s Burse....Pages 197-214
“Oranges and lemons say the Bells of St. Clement’s”: Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies....Pages 215-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-272