English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707 (Paperback, Annotated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2012
Authors:	Delarivier Manley • Mary Pix • Bernadette Andrea
Dimensions:	249 x 147 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	534
Edition:	Annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7727-2120-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7727-2120-3
Barcode:	9780772721204

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