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Abstract
This thesis is concerned with the concept of acculturation in Edward Said’s writings and its application to Elizabethan drama with special reference to William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, and christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. It consists of four chapters and a conclusion.
The first chapter tackles the concept of acculturation as anthropology defines it and how near or far from it Edward Said’s concept as it can be grasped in his writings namely Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism and his article ” Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors”. The second chapter traces the effect of Arabic-European Medieval acculturation in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest through exploring the influence of Arabic alchemy on the play’s dramatic structure. The third chapter investigates how Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist mirrors Avicenna’s scientific method on whose basis he rejected alchemy and considered it – as Jonson did- a fraudulent practice. The forth chapter traces the influence of the Arabic concept of science and the associating philosophers-theologians dispute in the Middle Ages on christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. The conclusion is a synthesis of the findings related to issues of acculturation in Edward Said writings and to Arabic-European acculturation with highlighting its impact on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist, and christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus as representing Elizabethan drama.