Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds

1. Introduction
Bernadette Andrea, Linda McJannet

2. From Maurice to Muhammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism
Andrew Moran

3. Islam, Race, and Political Legitimacy in Ralegh’s The Life and Death of Mahomet

Dennis Austin Britton

4. Persian Icons, Shi‘a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage
Javad Ghatta

5. The Tartar King’s Masque and Performances of Imperial Desire in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania

Bernadette Andrea

6. Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India
Bindu Malieckal

7. “by my owne experience or the Most probablest Relation off others”: Manuscript Travel Writing and Peter Mundy’s “Relation” of Constantinople (1617–20)
Philip S. Palmer

8. Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory
Annaliese F. Connolly

9. “Now will I be a Turke”: Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe’s The Courageous Turk
Joel Elliot Slotkin

10. The Frontiers of Twelfth Night
Su Fang Ng

11. “A Turk’s mustachio”: Anglo-Islamic Traffic and Exotic London in Ben Jonson’s Every Man out of His Humour and Entertainment at Britain’s Burse
Justin Kolb

12. “Oranges and lemons say the Bells of St. Clement’s”: Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies
Linda McJannet

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, History of the Middle East, Middle Eastern Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Islam