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The Image of "Turkishness" on the Jacobean Stage

MIKYŠKOVÁ, Anna

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Image of "Turkishness" on the Jacobean Stage

Autoři

MIKYŠKOVÁ, Anna (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, Hradec Králové, 2016, 2336-3347

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/16:00103831

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

English drama; Turkishness; Renaissance; Ottoman Empire; Turkish; Muslim; Christian; stereotype

Štítky

Příznaky

Recenzováno
Změněno: 26. 4. 2019 14:07, Mgr. Igor Hlaváč

Anotace

V originále

One of the reasons why English Renaissance drama has always enjoyed great popularity among both general theatre-going audiences and literary critics is its intrinsic quality of reflecting the current issues of the early modern period. One such example was the encounter of Englishmen with Turks. Since medieval crusades, Europeans had perceived Turks as the arch enemy of the whole Christendom and the territorial expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the course of the 15th and 16th centuries even intensified the conflict between the West and the East. This article focuses on the ideological campaign launched by English Renaissance playwrights against the imminent Turkish threat and explores the image of “Turkishness” which they drew – that is, the stereotypical portrayal of Turks and their culture that moulded the then anti-Muslim sentiment. The image of “Turkishness” is traceable in many Renaissance plays. Even authors such as Shakespeare, who did not devote any of their plays to the Turkish issue, participated in the anti-Muslim rhetoric of the time. Although scholars such as Nabil Matar agree that Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism (the recurrent misconception of the Orient in the Western literary tradition) is applicable to the texts written from the 18th century onwards, this paper tries to demonstrate that the mechanisms which later shaped the Anglocentric perspective of the Muslim “Other” and contributed to the underlying principle of Said’s theory, had been under way even before the English imperial drive began taking place.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1143/2015, interní kód MU
Název: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě (Akronym: VZALL)
Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty