The Renegado Paperback / softback
by Philip Massinger
Edited by Professor Michael (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Neill
Part of the Arden Early Modern Drama series
Paperback / softback
Description
The Renegado is one of the most shamelessly entertaining plays of its age, fetching its inspiration from a number of works by Cervantes, based on his own experiences as a captive in Algiers.
Introducing the eroticized captivity narrative to the English stage, Massinger's tragicomedy combines it with the long-popular romance motif of a Christian hero's conquest of an exotic princess.
But even as it indulges in romantic fantasy, The Renegado engages with contentious issues of national and international politics, offering a provocative response to the sectarian feuds dividing England in the 1620s, while exploiting wider European fears of the expansionist Muslim empire of the Ottomans.
Through its treatment of religious confrontation and conversion, Massinger's play offers important insights into early modern constructions of the Islamic world, and emerges as a piece with unexpected resonances for our own time.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 16 illustrations in introduction
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/03/2010
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- ISBN:9781904271611
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 16 illustrations in introduction
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/03/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781904271611
