The edge of Christendom on the early modern stage /

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary and Armenia. Some forms of Christia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : Kalamazoo, Michigan : Walter de Gruyter : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2022].
Series:	Late Tudor and Stuart drama.
Subjects:	English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism. English drama > 17th century > History and criticism. Christianity and literature > England > History > 16th century. Christianity and literature > England > History > 17th century.

Table of Contents:

Part One: The Edge and the Centre
Chapter 1. "All places shall be hell that are not heaven": The Edge of Rome
Chapter 2. Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar
Chapter 3. Danger and Demarcation in Massinger
Part Two: Edges Abroad
Chapter 4. "Having passed Armenian deserts now": Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great
Chapter 5. Bears and Fairies: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night
Chapter 6. The Last Plays and the Edges of Christendom
Chapter 7. The Politics of the Rose: English Histories and Foreign Flowers
Part Three: Edges at Home
Chapter 8. North by North-West: The Danelaw and the Edge of Christendom
Chapter 9. Let the Right One In: Edges of Christendom in Cavendish-Talbot Houses.