English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707

Bernadette Andrea is professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  She is author of Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor of Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

• Acknowledgements xiNote on the Text xiiAbbreviations xivGeneral Introduction: Early Modern English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 1Introduction: Delarivier Manley (c. 1670–1724) 17The Royal Mischief (1696) 41Appendix A: Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies (1686) 133Almyna: or, The Arabian Vow (1707) 139Appendix B: Arabian Nights Entertainments (1713) 235Introduction: Mary Pix (1666–1709) 255Ibrahim, The Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks (1696) 269Appendix C: The History of the Turkish Empire, from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677 (1687) 345The Conquest of Spain (1705) 373Appendix D: The Life of the Most Illustrious Monarch Almanzor (1693) 479Select Bibliography 493Index 501

"This important edition of plays by Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix brings a welcome gendered perspective on the representations of Islam on the late 17th century English stage. Bernadette Andrea is the scholar who has worked most extensively on this subject. The general introduction showcases her expertise, and serves as an excellent overview and context for the plays presented here. The introductions to Manley and Pix and to the individual plays provide a helpful history of scholarship and criticism; the supplementary texts included in the appendixes are well chosen and help to contextualize the works."