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Renegado

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ISBN-10: 1904271618

ISBN-13: 9781904271611

Edition: 2009

Authors: Philip Massinger, Michael Neill, Gordon McMullan, John Jowett, Suzanne Gossett

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This Jacobean tragic-comedy by Philip Massinger explores the cultural conflict between Christian Europe and Muslim North Africa experienced when the two began to travel and trade in the early modern period. The play is peopled with merchants and pirates and the somewhat convoluted plot involves conversions between both faiths, disguise, kidnap and clandestine marriage.P PThe play is one of many of the period exploring the tantalising and sometimes threatening other world of other religions and cultures and as such is studied alongside more familiar plays such as Othello and The Merchant of Venice. Michael Neill explores the themes as well as the pure theatrical joy of this fast-paced play,…    
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Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.81" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Michael Neill is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland and Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent. He is the author of Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy and Putting History to the Question. His editions include Antony and Cleopatra and Othello for the Oxford Shakespeare, Middleton's The Changeling for New Mermaids, and Massinger's The Renegado for Arden Early Modern Drama.

Gordon McMullan is Reader in English at King's College London.

Suzanne Gossett is Professor of English at Loyola University, Chicago