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English women staging Islam, 1696-1707 / Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix ; edited and introduced by Bernadette Andrea.
- Title
- English women staging Islam, 1696-1707 / Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix ; edited and introduced by Bernadette Andrea.
- Author
- Manley, Delarivier, -1724
- Publication
- Toronto : Iter Inc. : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012.
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- Description
- xx, 531 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix were among the groundbreaking "female wits," who debuted their original plays for the public stage in 1695-66. 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 traslated 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, for the first time. This edition also includes appendices with excerpts from historical sources and a select bibliography"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- The other voice in early modern Europe series : the Toronto series ; 17
- Uniform Title
- Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series 17.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Drama
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Delarivier Manley (c. 1670-1724) -- The Royal mischief (1696) -- Appendix A: Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the West Indies (1686) -- Almyna: or, the Arabian vow (1707) -- Appendix B: Arabian nights entertainments (1713) -- Introduction: Mary Pix (1666-1709) -- Ibrahim, the thirteenth Emperor of the Turks (1696) -- Appendix C: The history of the Turkish empire, from the year 1623 to the year 1677 (1687) -- The conquest of Spain (1705) -- Appendix D: The life of the most illustrious monarch Almanzor (1693).
- ISBN
- 9780772721204
- 0772721203
- OCLC
- 780360623
- SCSB-12428259
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library