Speaking of the Moor : From "Alcazar" to "Othello"

is too clean, for Xarif ’s historical prototype was, in fact, a Turk, Moulay Mo- hammed el-Kaim bi amer Allah; and Abd el-Malek ...

185 ).^46 And whereas in Marlowe’s Jew of Maltathe Turkish Calymath is omi- nously poised for conquest when he collects tribute ...

of Morocco to his hands” ( 2. 2. 48 – 50 ), that the play can proceed, that Muly’s small cadre of supporters can grasp onto “the ...

Moor, / Whose wily trains with smoothest course of speech / Have tied and tanged in a dangerous war / The fierce and manly King ...

their “blood” ( 3. 2. 30 ), he nonetheless, “in pity to the Portugal,” appoints “se- cret messengers to counsel” that misguided ...

reigns, / ’Twere all in vain, for heavens and destinies / Attend and wait upon her majesty” ( 2. 4. 103 – 8 ). Although this pas ...

returned to England thereafter (to betray Henri’s plans of invading England), and though he was temporarily imprisoned in the To ...

That cannot make a step to gain a crown; / No word shall pass the office of my tongue, / That sounds not of affection to a crown ...

that he blushed not to tell queen Elizabeth, “that he preferred rather to be sovereign of a mole-hill, than the highest subject ...

the new Moroccan regime’s impending rise. Because he addresses his speech to “friends” and “lordings” in the audience, it also b ...

straight and fly” ( 5. 1. 96 – 97 ). But instead of flying or fighting, he reiterates his hope for vengeance, imagining now that ...

wiched between and contrasted by Muly’s Seth derogation and ostracization of Muly Mahamet, “the traitorous Moor” ( 5. 1. 203 ). ...

at least one Englishman. Here, on the staging ground of Morocco, where his- tory takes form “in view of all the world,” not only ...

chapter two Imperialist Beginnings Hakluyt’s Navigationsand the Place and Displacement of Africa Roughly five yearsafterAlcazar, ...

showing traces of uncertainty and ambivalence within the cross-cultural mis- sion, of mutuality and mimicry within exchange rela ...

world,” ultimately the Navigationsexposes the unevenness of England’s efforts and the uncertainty of its aims. And importantly, ...

with the backing of papal bulls, but whose primary interests lay elsewhere, in the ever-alluring East.^12 To be sure, Prince Hen ...

western coast: Wyndham led an expedition to Guinea in 1553 , John Lok an- other in 1554 , and William Towerson several, in 1555 ...

of London (initially authorized during the reign of Henry IV) was revived and chartered in 1552 , just as the first sustained wa ...

setting the foundation for “true transplantation,” as Karen Kupperman has ar- gued.^34 If Carole Shammas is right, only during J ...