The Island Princess

by John Fletcher and Peter Anthony Motteux

Book Overview

The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of empire. The play also stages the degeneration of religious tolerance into fanaticism.
This ground-breaking edition explores the play in its gendered, political, social and religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904271537
• ISBN13: 9781904271536
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"