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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793399403321

Autore

Niayesh Ladan

Titolo

Three romances of Eastern conquest / / edited by Ladan Niayesh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-5261-0793-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)

Collana

Revels plays companion library

Disciplina

822.308

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

Middle East Drama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The comical history of Alphonsus, King of Aragon / by Robert Greene The tragedy of Soliman and Perseda / by Thomas Kyd The four prentices of London / by Thomas Heywood.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre's fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries' wide range of responses to cross-cultural contacts with the Muslim East and the Mediterranean challenges posed by the Ottoman empire. The volume presents the first modern-spelling editions of the three plays, with extensive annotations catering for specialised scholars while also making the texts accessible to students and theatre-goers. A detailed introduction discusses issues of authorship, dates and sources, and sets the plays in their historical and cultural contexts, offering exciting insights on Elizabethan performance strategies, printing practices, and the circulation of knowledge and stereotypes related to ethnic and religious difference.