William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Edition
Redaktion: Dimmock, Matthew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) - roughly contemporary to Shakespeare's Othello - is the only known play of the early modern period to place the Prophet Mohammad on the stage. The play takes place in around the mosques of 'Mecha' and the action mirrors parts of the Qur'an, the Islamic holy text that was rarely available in England at the time. Matthew Dimmock presents here the play in its entirety, with a critical introduction which introduces some of the key themes of the play, and its textual and social context. A section of detailed explanatory scholarly notes follow the play, with a full translation of the short Latin sections and a reference to any political or literary parallels. This book should be required reading for historians and literary scholars dealing with notions of 'race' and 'religion' in early modern England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351872744
• Artikelnr.: 48416932

Autorenporträt

Dr Matthew Dimmock is Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005) and Cultural Encounters Between East and West, 1453-1699 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005), co-edited with Matthew Birchwood. He is currently working on a book-length study of the Prophet Muhammad in Christian thought and iconography.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Play and playwright
The Qu'ran, the Bible and religious polemic
Portraying 'Mahomet'
Alchemy and the occult
Unravelling the playscript: I. Textual history
II. Sources and performance
'Strange and wayward'? A note on this edition. Mahomet and His Heaven
Textual variants
Explanatory notes to the play
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.