“Turning Turk,” Early Modern English Orientalism, and Shakespeare’s Othello

In commemorating four hundred years of William shakespeare's Othello, we find ourselves today, like English society then, a consortium of Western cultures poised to counter Muslim terrorist aggression. Whereas early modern Europeans feared the massive advance of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, the twenty-first century world is preoccupied with threats posed by fringe elements of Islamic culture—paramilitary or political organizations like Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah. In the early seventeenth century, William Shakespeare engages with the subject of the East-West conflict troubling Europe in his great tragedy Othello.KeywordsIslamic CultureForeign LandIslamic FaithMuslim RulerFringe ElementThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Empire · Islam · Literature · Orientalism · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Subject (documents) · Terrorism · Tragedy (event) · Turkish · Classics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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