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The Restoration Muslim Tangerines Caliban and Sycorax in Dryden-Davenant's Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest
in Critical Survey
Author:
Hussein A. Alhawamdeh
Hussein A. Alhawamdeh
University of Jordan
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Abstract
This article analyses the filtering of Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) in the Restoration drama repertoire, showing the Restoration revision of the Shakespearean stereotypical delineation of the ‘half-moor’ Caliban in the light of Restoration England's complex relations of admiration and trepidation with regard to the Muslim Moors and Turks. Dryden-Davenant's The Tempest or The Enchanted Island (1667) complicates the figures of Caliban and Sycorax as Muslim Moorish friends or foes and possible subjects of Charles II's English Tangier on the Barbary coast. Dryden-Davenant's The Enchanted Island makes historical parallels and allusions to Charles II's marriage to the Portuguese Catherine of Braganza and the English possession of Tangier as a part of the marriage dowry.
Contributor Notes
Hussein A. Alhawamdeh is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Jordan. He earned his PhD in English Literature from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2011. His research interests revolve around the dramatisation of Islam in Renaissance and Restoration drama and the perception of Shakespeare in Arabic literature.