عنوان

Schism and Irenicism in Jacobean England: Imagining unity through Islamic encounter

Number

TL48502

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Schism and Irenicism in Jacobean England: Imagining unity through Islamic encounter

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Duha Mohiuddin

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Kaplan, Lindsay; Yiu, Mimi

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Georgetown University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

106

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-22233-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

English

Body granting the degree

Georgetown University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This thesis seeks to demonstrate that in the years surrounding the reign of James I of England (1603-1625), there existed in English society an underlying yearning for religious concord that came to expression in the encounter with Islam. In dramatic works such as William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (1601), John Day, Thomas Rowley, and George Wilkins's The Travels of the Three English Brothers (1607), and Phillip Massinger's The Renegado (1625), I locate diverse representations of Islam that led to distinct imaginings of unity for English society. In following the arch of James's reign, this project analyzes how early modern dramatic writers used these representations to negotiate the religious divisions between Protestants and Catholics in the wake of the Reformation. It makes the case that the encounter with Islam provided a platform to imagine possibilities for harmonious relationships between different denominations and, by doing so, helped to move English society in a direction toward religious toleration.

Islamic Studies; British and Irish literature

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences

Deng, Yunhui

Kaplan, Lindsay; Yiu, Mimi

Subdivision

English

Georgetown University

Call Number

1732875874; 1603455

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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