Staging the Tories' Islamic Jihad against George I and the Whigs in Edward Young's The Revenge

• Published in: Orbis litterarum Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 360 - 378
• Main Author: Alhawamdeh, Hussein A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2024
• Subjects: adaptation; Allegory; Catholicism; Edward Young; eighteenth‐century drama; Islam; Quran; Shakespeare's Othello; Text analysis; The Alcoran of Mahomet; The Revenge; Young, Edward (1683-1765)

This article analyzes Edward Young's nuanced employment of Islam and appropriation of the Qur'an, first translated into English as The Alcoran of Mahomet in 1649, to attack allegorically the Tories' aspirations to support James Francis Edward Stuart (1701–1766), who was nicknamed “the...