Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Robert Greene’s Orlando Furioso
Turning Miscegenation into Tragicomedy (Or Not): Robert Greene’s Orlando Furioso
This chapter discusses genre as an alternative to assessing the racial and gendered stakes of Christian-Muslim conversion. It studies what happens when a romance plot is forced into a tragicomic structure and reveals the inability of the early modern stage to visualize Christian redemption for a female character after Islamic sexual contamination. The chapter also determines a slippage between embodiment and spirituality — or religious and racial identity — that is crucially mediated via the generic structures of plays.
Keywords: genre, Christian-Muslim conversion, romance plot, tragicomic structure, Christian redemption, sexual contamination, generic structures, religious identity, racial identity
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