Shakespeare's Orientalism Revisited: A Postcolonial Study of the Appropriation of Arabic/Islamic Allusions and Matters in the Bard's Oeuvre.
This article attempts to document and examine the corpus of Arabic and Islamic allusions and references in Shakespeare's drama and poetry in line with postcolonial discourse and theory. The works of Shakespeare incorporate a large body of Arabic/Islamic matters, which the Bard has gleaned from diffe...
| Publicado en: | Critical Survey Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 21 - 36 |
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