TY - BOOK AU - Cervantes Saavedra,Miguel de AU - Cervantes Saavedra,Miguel de AU - Ilika,Aaron AU - Fuchs,Barbara ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - The bagnios of Algiers: and, The great Sultana : two plays of captivity SN - 9780812207903 AV - PQ6329.A7 F83 2010 U1 - 862/.3 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Philadelphia, Pa. PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, KW - Captivity KW - Drama KW - Islam KW - Istanbul (Turkey) KW - Algiers (Algeria) KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175); Introduction -- The Bagnios of Algiers -- The Great Sultana -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments N2 - The Bagnios of Algiers and The Great Sultana enact the intense imaginative engagement of early modern Spain with the Muslim worlds of the Mediterranean. They also reflect Cervantes's first-hand experience of captivity in North Africa, which had a crucial impact on his writing. The religious and political rivalries on this "forgotten frontier," as Andrew Hess terms it (1978), serve as the backdrop to the complex set of relationships and identities explored in the texts UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812207903/ ER -