The Stage Turk in Early Modern English Drama | Ambereen Dadabhoy

Ottoman History Podcast

E496 | William Shakespeare's lifetime overlapped with the height of Ottoman prowess on the world stage, which is partly why so many Turkish characters graced the Elizabethan stage during the 16th and 17th centuries. As our guest Ambereen Dadabhoy explains, the representations of "Turks" and "Moors" in early modern English drama offer a window onto conceptions of race in Europe before the modern period. In this conversation, Dadabhoy shares her experience writing and teaching about race in early modern English literature, and we reflect on the value of Shakespeare for charting connections and transformations in conceptions of Muslim societies from Shakespeare's time to the present. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/03/shakerace.html Ambereen Dadabhoy is an Associate Professor of Literature at Harvey Mudd College. Her research and teaching focus on the representation of race and religion in early modern English drama. She's also interested in the Orientalist logics of the war on terror in its early modern and contemporary manifestations. Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s. Maryam Patton is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program. She is interested in early modern cultural exchanges, and her dissertation studies cultures of time and temporal consciousness in the Eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. CREDITS Episode No. 496 Release Date: 4 March 2021 Recording Location: Claremont, CA / Charlottesville, VA / Oxford, UK Sound production by Chris Gratien Music: John Sayles Bibliography courtesy of Ambereen Dadabhoy at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/03/shakerace.html