English Women Staging Islam, 1696-1707: Volume 17

by Mary Pix and Delarivier Manley

Delarivier Manley and Mary Pix were among the groundbreaking "female wits," who debuted their original plays for the public stage in 1695-96. 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 translated Arabian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0772721203
• ISBN13: 9780772721204
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 533 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"