Negative depictions of Muslim characters featured in Elizabethan drama are numerous as well. Tamburlaine and Othello are representative of the monsters we are interested in here. As hybrids belonging to more than one monstrous race, they threatened notions of English racial purity.

XREF: Connects to postcolonial literary criticism and Orientalism scholarship on early modern representations of Muslims and Moors.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 277