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Shakespeare's Persians

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To the Elizabethans (and perhaps to us as well), Persians were Muslims of an unusual kind. Inheritors of the Pagan empire of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes, the non- Mediterranean, non-Turkish, non-Sunni Persians were a religious exception among the ‘‘Saracens’’ and a political foil to the Ottomans. The Sherley brothers’ diplomatic efforts towards a European alliance with Persia against the Turks added to and depended on this perspective. Traces of this special status and its representational instability are visible in a number of Shakespearean and other plays of the period. Their study helps open up a ‘‘space of negation, negotiation, and confusion of identity’’ called for by Daniel Vitkus as a necessary preliminary for the construction of a post-Saidian, non-dualistic paradigm of oriental otherness.
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Ladan Niayesh. Shakespeare's Persians. Shakespeare, 2009, ⟨10.1080/17450910802083120⟩. ⟨hal-01446881⟩
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