Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
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Page 90
... play is unusual in that the heroine is a Turk and not a Christian captive . More orthodox in this respect is The Fair Captive ( 1721 ) , a heroic play by Captain Robert Hurst , rewritten by Mrs. Heywood . Alphonso attempts to ransom the ...
... play is unusual in that the heroine is a Turk and not a Christian captive . More orthodox in this respect is The Fair Captive ( 1721 ) , a heroic play by Captain Robert Hurst , rewritten by Mrs. Heywood . Alphonso attempts to ransom the ...
Page 91
... play containing Moslem characters , Solyman , seeing the fair young wife of Mustapha , thus soliloquizes . Fancy not fairer paints those heaven - born maids , Daughters of ... play . In Whincop's play both Amurath and his The Age of Pope 91.
... play containing Moslem characters , Solyman , seeing the fair young wife of Mustapha , thus soliloquizes . Fancy not fairer paints those heaven - born maids , Daughters of ... play . In Whincop's play both Amurath and his The Age of Pope 91.
Page 95
... play , consented to the change and suppressed the conversion . This robs the play of much of its dramatic significance , and makes the action of Eudocia in repudiating her lover seem arbitrary and cruel . The interest aroused by the play ...
... play , consented to the change and suppressed the conversion . This robs the play of much of its dramatic significance , and makes the action of Eudocia in repudiating her lover seem arbitrary and cruel . The interest aroused by the play ...
Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 54 |
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