Open AccessThe Self and the Other in Philip Massinger’s “The Renegado, the Gentleman of Venice”: A Structural View
Author(s) -
Hana Fathi Farajallah,
Amal Riyadh Kitishat
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.17507/tpls.0901.17
Subject(s) - tragicomedy , drama , queen (butterfly) , theme (computing) , literature , the renaissance , art , the arts , humanism , islam , flourishing , history , classics , art history , philosophy , visual arts , theology , hymenoptera , botany , archaeology , computer science , biology , operating system , psychology , psychotherapist
Renaissance England (1500-1660) is the most flourishing era of English history which testified the emergence of classical humanistic arts. Of course, drama is a literary genre that prospered, then, to entertain the interests of the Royal ruling families, especially Queen Elizabeth 1 (1558-1603) and her successor King James 1 (1603-25), as theatres were built in London along with dramatic performances held in the courts like masquerades. This study aims at showing the distortion of Islam in Philip Massinger’s “The Renegado or The Gentleman of Venice”, via tackling the theme of “the self and the other” and analyzing the structure of the play. Why not, and English Renaissance citizens love to watch the non-Christians, the misbelievers, humiliated and undermined. Massinger, among other Elizabethan dramatists like William Shakespeare, uses the art of tragicomedy to show the Western hatred, which is “the self”, of the Oriental Islam that is in turn “the other”.