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Jerry Brotton
'Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' Shakespeare and Islam.
Hay Festival 2004,
The scholar will explore relations between the Islamic East and the Christian West during the sixteenth century. Brotton will reveal that the contemporary understanding of Islam was far more complex than has been realised, as suggested in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaires.