Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama
Hospitable Globalities
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 September 2025
- ISBN 9780198966722
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 224x145x15 mm
- Weight 446 g
- Language English 640
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Persian Paradigms of Hospitality
Expanding the Social Imaginary: Early Modern Globality and Shakespeare's Persian Tom
Staging Politique Persians in Kyng Daryus, Godly Queene Hester, and The Wars of Cyrus
Manifesting Shakespeare's Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers
Hosting Persian Transformations in Caroline Drama
Spiritual Cosmopolitanism in Cyrus the Great, or the Tragedy of Love
Epilogue: Sugar in Milk: Hospitable Narratives in a Hostile Age
