Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

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Av Ambereen Dadabhoy

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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.Honorable Mention: The SAA First Book 2025

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-29
Mått129 x 198 x undefined mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpotlight on Shakespeare
Antal sidor250
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032100883

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Where are all my Muslims at or Shakespearean ErasuresChapter 1: The Muslims Are Coming: The Tempest’s Brave Old WorldsChapter 2: Menace to Society: Turning to the "Turk" in Shakespeare’s History PlaysChapter 3: The Moor You Know: Shakespeare’s Nation of IslamChapter 4: Turkish Delight: Twelfth Night’s Harem LifeConclusion: "What is’t to me?" or Muslim Worlds through ShakespeareIndex

‘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, TLSHonorable Mention: The SAA First Book 2025