Daniel J. Vitkus, ed. Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, A Christian Turned Turk, and The Renegado.

Publication: Comparative Drama

Publication Date: 22-JUN-01

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New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 358. $49.50.

Using texts held at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Daniel J. Vitkus presents modernized (in spelling and stage directions) editions of three seventeenth-century plays. An introduction (1-53), numerous maps and illustrations, and an appendix of some related materials dealing with English-Muslim relations round out the volume. All three "Turk" plays present Muslim characters, either in their pursuits in their homelands (Selimus, attributed to Robert Greene) or in interactions with English subjects (Robert Daborne, A Christian Turned Turk, and Philip Massinger, The Renegado). Vitkus deserves praise...

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