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Article: Travels through "Islam" in early modern English studies.(Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630)(Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626)(The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720)(Book review)
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Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630. By Daniel Vitkus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xiv + 244
Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626. By Richmond Barbour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 238
The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720. By Gerald M. MacLean. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xxi + 276
The three books under review epitomize the current groundswell of literary historical studies focusing on England and Islam from the late sixteenth through the early eighteenth century. (Though not often qualified, the ...