L. McJannet & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds 

The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined 'traffic’ between England and the 'Islamic worlds’ it encountered and constructed.

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Islamic Worlds in Early Modern English Literature – Bernadette Andrea and Linda Mc Jannet PART I: CHARTING ARABIA AND THE 'ARABIAN PROPHET’ From Maurice to Mohammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism – Andrew Moran Demonizing Spain in Ralegh’s The Life and Death of Mahomet – Dennis Britton PART II: ENGLISH VENTURES INTO 'PERSIANATE’ CULTURES Persian Icons, Shi’a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage – Javad Ghatta Tartar Masques in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomeries Urania, Part II – Bernadette Andrea Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India – Bindu Malieckal PART III: 'TURK PLAYS’ AND ENGLISH IDENTITY FORMATION ’ By my Owne Experience or the Most probablest Relation off Others’: Peter Mundy’s MS Account of Constantinople (1617-20) – Philip Palmer Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory – Annaliese Connolly 'Now will I be a Turke’: Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe’s The Courageous Turk – Joel Slotkin PART IV: ENGLAND’S TRAFFIC WITH ITS EASTS The Frontiers of Twelfth Nigh t – Su Fang Ng 'A Turk’s mustachio’: Anglo-Islamic Exchange and the Development of Urban Character in Ben Jonson’s City Comedies – Justin Kolb 'Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clement’s’: Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies – Linda Mc Jannet

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LINDA MCJANNET is a Professor of English at Bentley University, USA. 
 
BERNADETTE ANDREA is a Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.