Representations of the `Turk` in Early Modern Drama - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2016/17
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	deutsch
Weitere Links	Kommentar
Belegungsfrist	04.10.2016 - 10.11.2016 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Fr	14:00 bis 16:00	wöchentlich	21.10.2016 bis 10.02.2017	1.19.1.22	PD Dr. Röder	23.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 30.12.2016: Akademische Weihnachtsferien

Kommentar	Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar". In the last decades, cultural historians have demonstrated that the Islamic world and especially the Ottoman Empire were of more political and cultural importance to early modern England than had previously been acknowledged. In many of his publications, Nabil Matar has emphasised the ongoing fascination which the Islamic world held for the early modern English population. He shows that this fascination was not only of a fictional and fantastic nature, but grounded in reality. In his book Islam in Britain, Matar writes that “the likelihood of an Englishman’s or Scotsman’s meeting a Muslim was higher than that of meeting a native American or a sub-Saharan African […]”. In this seminar, we will discuss early modern English representations of Islam and the “Turk” in plays, but also in sermons, pamphlets, travellers’ and prisoners’ reports and historiographical accounts because they offer an important perspective on representations of the Self and the Other before the beginning of the period of Orientalism proper. The texts ed for discussion show that early modern English representations of the Islamic Other were more ambiguous and fluid than in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. They were tendentious, hateful, often polemic and sometimes favourable, characterised by a blend of fear, admiration, desire and imperial envy.
Literatur	Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I & II (1587/88) Thomas Kyd: The Tragedy of Soliman and Perseda (1588/1592-93) Robert Greene: The Tragical Reign of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the Turks (1594) John Mason: The Turk (1609) Robert Daborne: A Christian Turn’d Turk (1612) Philip Massinger: The Renegado (1623/24)

Kommentar

Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar".

In the last decades, cultural historians have demonstrated that the Islamic world and especially the Ottoman Empire were of more political and cultural importance to early modern England than had previously been acknowledged. In many of his publications, Nabil Matar has emphasised the ongoing fascination which the Islamic world held for the early modern English population. He shows that this fascination was not only of a fictional and fantastic nature, but grounded in reality. In his book Islam in Britain, Matar writes that “the likelihood of an Englishman’s or Scotsman’s meeting a Muslim was higher than that of meeting a native American or a sub-Saharan African […]”. In this seminar, we will discuss early modern English representations of Islam and the “Turk” in plays, but also in sermons, pamphlets, travellers’ and prisoners’ reports and historiographical accounts because they offer an important perspective on representations of the Self and the Other before the beginning of the period of Orientalism proper. The texts ed for discussion show that early modern English representations of the Islamic Other were more ambiguous and fluid than in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. They were tendentious, hateful, often polemic and sometimes favourable, characterised by a blend of fear, admiration, desire and imperial envy.

Literatur

Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I & II (1587/88)
Thomas Kyd: The Tragedy of Soliman and Perseda (1588/1592-93)
Robert Greene: The Tragical Reign of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the Turks (1594)
John Mason: The Turk (1609)
Robert Daborne: A Christian Turn’d Turk (1612)
Philip Massinger: The Renegado (1623/24)

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2016/17 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024