Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index.
Contents:
Erasing the cultural and religious difference : Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Greene's Alphonsus -- The Muslim woman and A Christian turned Turk : Islamic apostasy and the gender paradigm on the Jacobean stage -- 4 Redeeming the Islamic eve inside the Ottoman palace : Massinger's The renegado -- "Hell's perfect character" : dark female sexuality and the fear of Ottoman colonialism in The knight of Malta -- The island princess : colonialism, religion, (inter)sexuality, and intertextuality.
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