Elzābet of Anletār
John Gallagher, 22 September 2016
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
by Jerry Brotton.
Allen Lane, 358 pp., £20, March 2016,978 0 241 00402 9 Show More
by Jerry Brotton.
Allen Lane, 358 pp., £20, March 2016,
“... great mural for Whitehall Palace (destroyed by fire in 1698), the rucked-up carpet on which Henry VIII stands was probably the work of Muslim craftsmen. When Gremio makes a bid for Bianca’s hand in The Taming of the Shrew, he boasts of his townhouse filled with ‘hangings all of Tyrian tapestry’ and strewn with ‘Turkey cushions boss’d with ... ”