Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

Bernadette Andrea is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

‘This engaging, sophisticated book will find an audience among all Shakespeare lovers who wonder where the Bard’s Moors, Turks, and Tatars came from.’- M.Cooke (Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017)

• INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE: The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in British Literature and Culture, c. 1500–1630CHAPTER TWO: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen’s Authorship: Queen Elizabeth I, the Tartar Girl, and the Tartar-Indian WomanCHAPTER THREE: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen’s Authorship: Lady Mary Wroth, the Tartar-Persian Princess, and the Tartar KingCHAPTER FOUR: Signifying Gender and Islam in Early Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors (1594) and the Gray’s Inn Revels (1594–95)CHAPTER FIVE: Signifying Gender and Islam in Late Shakespeare: Henry VIII or All is True (1613) and British "Masques of Blackness" (c. 1507–1605)CHAPTER SIX: The Intersecting Paths of Two Women from the Islamic World: Teresa Sampsonia, Mariam Khanim, and the East India CompanyBIBLIOGRAPHY