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Zemon Davis, Natalie. Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy: Theatre and Poetry across the Mediterranean. by Robert John Clines is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Zemon Davis, Natalie. Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy: Theatre and Poetry across the Mediterranean. about?
Wazzan al-Fasi, better known to readers as Leo Africanus. His movement between Muslim and Christian worlds, his balancing act of navigating two different religious identities, and his intellectual curiosity all give those of us working on identity, religious conversion, and the early modern Mediterranean much to discuss. But what else is there to know? Is there anything we missed? Natalie Zemon Davis argues that yes, indeed, there is a lot more to know, and we missed quite a bit. In this splendid book, we learn that one of the missing links in al-Wazzan's story is how theatre functioned across time and space in the Mediterranean world. Zemon Davis probes the nature of theatre in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean to ask what al-Wazzan knew about it. Moreover, Zemon Davis is interested not solely in how a Muslim understood theatre in its Arabic and Italian contexts; rather, she is curious to what extent all of this can be linked to the centrality of the tradition of Aristotelian poetics across Arabic and Italian traditions. By using al-Wazzan as her guide, Zemon Davis aims to "look at parallels and divergences in the cultural trajectories of the Arabic/Islamic and the Europ
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- Author
- Robert John Clines
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)