Description
| Product ID: | 9781032100845 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Spotlight on Shakespeare |
| Title: | Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds |
| Authors: | Author: Ambereen Dadabhoy |
| Page Count: | 250 |
| Subjects: | Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare plays, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Religion: general, Islam, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism, Religion: general, Islam, Islamic studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s corpus. While many of Shakespeare’s plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people. Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s canon. While many of Shakespeare’s plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people. This erasure is striking given the popularity of this topic in the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. By exploring the limited ways in which Shakespeare uses Islamic and Muslim tropes and topoi, Ambereen Dadabhoy argues that Islam and Muslim cultures function as an alternate or shadow text in his works, ranging from his staged Mediterranean plays to his histories and comedies. By consigning the diverse cultures of the Islamic regimes that occupied and populated the early modern Mediterranean, Shakespeare constructs a Europe and Mediterranean freed from the presence of non-white, non-European, and non-Christian Others, which belied the reality of the world in which he lived. Focusing on the Muslims at the margins of Shakespeare’s works, Dadabhoy reveals that Islam and its cultures informed the plots, themes, and intellectual investments of Shakespeare’s plays. She puts Islam and Muslims back into the geographies and stories from which Shakespeare had evacuated them. This innovative book will be of interest to all those working on race, religion, global and cultural exchange within Shakespeare, as well as people working on Islamic, Mediterranean, and Asian studies in literature and the early modern period. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-02-29 |
