English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707 Paperback / softback
by Delarivier Manley, Mary Pix, Bernadette Andrea
Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix were among the groundbreaking “female wits,” who debuted their original plays for the public stage in 1695–96.
Two of these plays contain explicitly Islamicate themes.
Manley’s The Royal Mischief expands on The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia(1686), and Pix’s Ibrahim draws on Rycaut’s History of the Turkish Empire (1687).
Continuing this interest, Manley’s Almyna (1706–7) responds to the newly translated Arabian Nights Entertainments (1704–17), and Pix’s The Conquest of Spain (1705) engages the history of Islamic Spain recounted in The Life of the Most Illustrious Monarch Almanzor (1693).
These plays have been modernized and annotated in this edition, most for the first time.
This edition also includes appendices with excerpts from historical sources and a select bibliography.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:534 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2012
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- ISBN:9780772721204
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:534 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:01/05/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780772721204
