02495nam 2200469 450 991046662950332120200520144314.01-5261-0793-7(CKB)4100000007150756(MiAaPQ)EBC5597872(OCoLC)1065537521(MdBmJHUP)muse72847(Au-PeEL)EBL5597872(CaPaEBR)ebr11637254(EXLCZ)99410000000715075620190107d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThree romances of Eastern conquest /edited by Ladan NiayeshManchester :Manchester University Press,2018.1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)Revels plays companion library0-7190-7857-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Revels plays companion library.English dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600Middle EastDramaElectronic books.English drama822.308MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466629503321Three romances of Eastern conquest1956318UNINA