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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations of Persian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of interreligious and intercultural hospitality for early modern and Shakespearean drama.
English playwrights depict Persia and its legendary monarchs, such as Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, and Darius, as alternative figures of cosmopolitanism in the period. By focusing on an archive of plays of Persia staged between 1561 and 1696 in conversation with Shakespeare's works, European peace proposals, legislative acts of toleration, and global traditions of hospitality found in Zoroastrianism, Islam, and the Judeo-Christian traditions, this book pioneers an interdisciplinary methodology, introduces Persianate conceptual lenses for literary analysis of English literature, and constructs capacities to imagine multiple globalities existing in early modernity through a spectrum of imagined and lived experiences on stage and on the ground.
Contents
Introduction: Persian Paradigms of Hospitality
1: Expanding the Social Imaginary: Early Modern Globality and Shakespeare's Persian Tom
2: Staging Politique Persians in Kyng Daryus, Godly Queene Hester, and The Wars of Cyrus
3: Manifesting Shakespeare's Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers
4: Hosting Persian Transformations in Caroline Drama
5: Spiritual Cosmopolitanism in Cyrus the Great, or the Tragedy of Love
Epilogue: Sugar in Milk: Hospitable Narratives in a Hostile Age
