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• W336562856 abstract "1. Unlike William Shakespeare's near-contemporaneous Tempest-wherein the action unfolds on an unspecified island somewhere in the watery space lying 'twixt Tunis and Naples-Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's Maid's Tragedy (King's Men, c. 1610) is set in a readily identifiable Mediterranean locale.[1] In the play's opening scene, Melantius, a soldier who has recently returned from performing military deeds abroad clearly identifies the to which he has been restored as Rhodes.[2] And lest we forget the particularity of the play's setting, the island's overly lustful monarch is referred to throughout the play exclusively by his national appellation. This geographical specificity in The Maid's Tragedy, however, is coupled with a marked sense of atemporality; that is, though the where of the action is made abundantly clear to the play's audience, the when remains elusive. In addressing Beaumont and Fletcher's unusual union of topographical precision with a carefully crafted sense of timelessness, this article considers the diverse imaginative landscapes in which Rhodes existed for early modern audiences. In what follows, I explore the meaning of Rhodes first within the historical, geopolitical context of the early modern Mediterranean (as a place that had played a crucial and well-known role at the epicentre of fifteenth and sixteenth-century conflicts between the Ottomans and the Knights of St John) and then in relation to the literary, intertextual planes peopled by the familiar characters of Greco-Roman mythological tradition. Within the play itself, these geopolitical and mythological readings of the Rhodian setting are not binaries. Rather, what is most evocative about the play's stated location is the diverse range of historical and cultural meanings attached to it. As my concluding reassessment of The Maid's Tragedy's bloody denouement elucidates, the simultaneous determinacy and indeterminacy of Beaumont and Fletcher's chosen setting allows for-and in fact derives its richness from-polysemantic play.2. In Andrew C. Hess's essay on The Tempest, he wonders Shakespeare chose to offer such a resonant set of Mediterranean geographical referents in his play, but then made little reference to the violent rupture of Mediterranean unity that redefined political and cultural borders at the time and location of his play.[3] I here want to ask a very similar set of questions about Beaumont and Fletcher's work: why have the authors set The Maid's Tragedy in a recognizable location-an island situated on the shifting borders of the Eurasian world-and how might we reread their play in light of regional geopolitics? Given the abundance of scholarly discourse on Shakespeare's Tempest within the regional context of the early modern Mediterranean, it is, perhaps, surprising that these questions have not been asked about The Maid's Tragedy before now. After all, it was more than a decade ago that Barbara Fuchs, citing sixteenth-century conflicts involving Malta, Cyprus, and Rhodes, declared that: Any island imagined in the Mediterranean [in the early seventeenth century] would be understood to exist in a hotly contested space, permanently threatened by the Ottoman Empire if not directly under its control.[4]3. Before examining the facets of the play's significant, though apparently heretofore unexplored, early modern geopolitical resonances in further detail, it is helpful to briefly review some key details regarding the transfers of political power in early modern Rhodes. Historically speaking, Rhodes was a conspicuously volatile place as well as a noted site of cross-cultural commerce and exchange. Since the first decade of the fourteenth century, the island had been controlled by the militant Christian order of the Knights of St John. Its strategic position, lying less than twenty kilometres offthe coast of Asia Minor and in the midst of key Mediterranean trade routes, made Rhodes a target of the rapidly expanding Ottoman Empire, the dominant power in the eastern Mediterranean during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. …" @default.
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• W336562856 title "Beaumont and Fletcher's Rhodes: early modern geopolitics and mythological topography in The Maid's Tragedy" @default.
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