(Paperback)

Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

(Hardback)

The play explores the tantalising and sometimes threatening "other" world of other religions and cultures and is studied alongside more familiar plays such as Othello and The Merchant of Venice. Michael Neill puts it in its historical cotext and discusses its resonances with modern audiences and readers today.

(Paperback)

This Jacobean tragic-comedy by Philip Massinger explores the cultural conflict between Christian Europe and Muslim North Africa experienced when the two began to travel and trade in the early modern period.