Ambereen Dadabhoy

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000999686
• Artikelnr.: 69854507

Autorenporträt

Ambereen Dadabhoy is Associate Professor of Literature at Harvey Mudd College, USA. She is the coauthor of Anti-Racist Shakespeare (with Nedda Mehdizadeh, 2023) and several articles on race and religion in Shakespeare and the early modern English literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Where are all my Muslims at or Shakespearean Erasures

Chapter 1: The Muslims Are Coming: The Tempest's Brave Old Worlds

Chapter 2: Menace to Society: Turning to the "Turk" in Shakespeare's History Plays

Chapter 3: The Moor You Know: Shakespeare's Nation of Islam

Chapter 4: Turkish Delight: Twelfth Night's Harem Life

Conclusion: "What is't to me?" or Muslim Worlds through Shakespeare

Index

Rezensionen

'This volume will be a welcome addition to any collection supporting advanced study of Shakespeare or of cultural encounters between Islam and the West. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.'

S. Magedanz, Choice, October 2024 Vol. 62 No. 2

'In her stimulating if dense scholarly study, Ambereen Dadabhoy sets out on a passionate quest to uncover the textual traces of Islam and Muslims in Shakespeare's works. The result is a coherent piece of analysis that refuses to shy away from pointing the finger at the playwright himself. One does have to wonder why Shakespeare left Muslims out. You would imagine that seemingly exotic characters should have been good for business - and his Globe Theatre audience loved to boo a villain. Dadabhoy contends in no uncertain terms that Shakespeare was deliberately excising and erasing Muslims from his plots. . . . [T]his remains an overdue work that, if it does one thing, raises an alarm about the nonchalantly perceived universality of the world's most famous writer - a figure with whom Muslims around the world have long engaged and, as a quarter of the world's population today, will continue to do'

Islam Issa, TLS