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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama - Sheiba Kian Kaufman

Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama

Hospitable Globalities
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-896672-2 (ISBN)
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This book examines Persian characters in English drama (1561-1696) to animate a new narrative of transnational relationships and structures of power in the Early Modern period. Several plays, from Godly Queene Hester to Cyrus the Great, are read alongside early modern English prose and poetry, toleration discourse, and European peace proposals.
Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations of Persian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of interreligious and intercultural hospitality for early modern and Shakespearean drama.

English playwrights depict Persia and its legendary monarchs, such as Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, and Darius, as alternative figures of cosmopolitanism in the period. By focusing on an archive of plays of Persia staged between 1561 and 1696 in conversation with Shakespeare's works, European peace proposals, legislative acts of toleration, and global traditions of hospitality found in Zoroastrianism, Islam, and the Judeo-Christian traditions, this book pioneers an interdisciplinary methodology, introduces Persianate conceptual lenses for literary analysis of English literature, and constructs capacities to imagine multiple globalities existing in early modernity through a spectrum of imagined and lived experiences on stage and on the ground.

Sheiba Kian Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of English at Saddleback College and Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of articles on Shakespeare, Persia, and early modern English drama. She has received fellowships from the UCLA Center for 17th-and 18th Century Studies, Clark Library, the UCI Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, the UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, Somerville College, Oxford, and the American Association of University Women.

Introduction: Persian Paradigms of Hospitality
1: Expanding the Social Imaginary: Early Modern Globality and Shakespeare's Persian Tom
2: Staging Politique Persians in Kyng Daryus, Godly Queene Hester, and The Wars of Cyrus
3: Manifesting Shakespeare's Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers
4: Hosting Persian Transformations in Caroline Drama
5: Spiritual Cosmopolitanism in Cyrus the Great, or the Tragedy of Love
Epilogue: Sugar in Milk: Hospitable Narratives in a Hostile Age

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 224 mm
Gewicht 446 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-896672-5 / 0198966725
ISBN-13 978-0-19-896672-2 / 9780198966722
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