Turning Turk

DANIEL VITKUS is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published articles on English Renaissance drama and culture, on European representations of Islam, and on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern period. He is also the editor of Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England and Piracy, Slavery and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England.

• Theorizing the Exotic Other The English and the Mediterranean Encountering Islam Machiavellian Merchants Engendering Exchange The Mediterranean and the New World

'[A] revealing exploration of England's early modern relationship with the Ottoman Empire and with Islam as a whole...Vitkus provides essential reading to those with an interest in the meeting of early modern cultures.' - Early Modern Literary Studies