Turning Turk : English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean

Name: Turning Turk
Brand: St Martin's Press
SKU: 9780312294526
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9780312294526

by D. Vitkus

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Format Hardback

Book Series Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

ISBN-10 0312294522

ISBN-13 9780312294526

Publisher St Martin's Press

Imprint St Martin's Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 17th, 2003

Print length 244 Pages

Weight 408 grams

Product Classification: Europe Theatre studies Theatre studies Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays & playwrights Literary studies: plays and playwrights British & Irish history Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies International relations History European history

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Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire, but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive.

Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures inthe early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of thatexperience on the London stage. Vitkus''s book demonstrates that theEnglish encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representationsinspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus'' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.

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