Shakespeare, Persia, and the East

Shakespeare, Persia, and the East
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Download or read book Shakespeare, Persia, and the East written by Sīrūs Ghanī and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No writer's work has been studied more closely or more often than the plays of William Shakespeare, that master of language and peerless explorer of the human heart. Books about him number in the thousands, yet "Shakespeare, Persia, and the East" brings a truly fresh perspective to his genius. In the three dozen plays he composed between 1590 and 1612, Shakespeare ranged far and wide in his imagination, setting some of his tales in places as varied as Denmark, Venice and Athens - while drawing on a rich array of imagery and lore from lands further east. This remarkable book by a lifelong student of Shakespeare, Cyrus Ghani, reveals how rich a source of inspiration those exotic Eastern realms were for the playwright. Elizabethan England was especially fascinated by Persia, whose deep-rooted culture was then flourishing under the Safavid dynasty. An Englishman first visited there in 1562, two years before Shakespeare's birth. More contacts between England and Persia followed, prompted by hopes of a lucrative trading relationship and a possible military alliance against the Ottoman Turks. A pair of English adventurers, Anthony and Robert Sherley, spent years attempting to establish these ties, not always scrupulously, and their story was well known to England's greatest dramatist. To illuminate the creative uses Shakespeare made of the East, this book first looks at the life of the playwright himself, then at the dynasties that did so much to shape England and Persia in that tumultuous age. Other sections in the book profile key figures in the efforts to forge a connection between the two lands, with particular focus on the colourful Sherleys and their fatally ambitious sponsor, the Earl of Essex -- a great admirer of Shakespeare. The final section of the book briefly describes the plays and cites their many allusions to the East -- testimony that this literary giant was very much a man of his time.


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