Section I: The (dis)embodiment of evil in medieval and Renaissance moments
1 Contours of an Inherent Frame: The Underpinnings of Evil in Everyman
Bibhash Choudhury
2 If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil
Dustin Lovett
3 Recognizable Patterns of Evil in Muslim Characters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Jeffrey McCambridge
4 Desiring Empire: The Colonial Violence of "Hijab Pornography"
Ibtisam M. Abujad
5 Villains of the High Seas: Apostasy and Piracy in George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, the Anonymously Authored Captain Thomas Stukeley, and William Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk
Jared S. Johnson
Section II: Performing moral deformity in the Shakespearean moment
6 The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
Hend Hamed
7 A Show of Illusions: Performing Villainous Magic in Shakespeare's The Tempest & Macbeth
Lisann Anders
8 The Demon's Amorous Looking Glass: Reflections on the Villain's Performative Self-Fashioning in Richard III by William Shakespeare
Nizar Zouidi
9 "It is his hand" Villainy through letters in Shakespeare's King Lear and Twelfth Night
Sélima Lejri
10 Villainy as a facet of Nietzsche's Wirkliche Historie prefigured in Shakespeare's Richard II and concretized in Brecht's Man Equals Man and The Measures Taken
Mariem Khmiri
Section III: Language, race and the dehumanization of the evil other in (post)colonial moments
11 Tituba's Stairway: Representations of Tituba in Historical and Fictional Texts Danielle Legros Georges
12 Colonial 'Idea' and 'Work': The Evil in Marlow's Heart of Darkness
Ahmet Süner
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About the Author:
Nizar Zouidi is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Hail, Saudi Arabia, and at the University of Gafsa, Tunisia. Zouidi is the author of a number of book chapters and journal articles about the representations of evil in early modern drama.
