White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves by Giles Milton

Author:Giles Milton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2006-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

THE LAUGHTER COULD be heard from the farthest end of the street. It crescendoed into a loud roar before fading into the noisy hubbub of the town. It was the spring of 1623, and the Phoenix playhouse in London was packed with grinning, toothless theatergoers. They had gathered to watch The Renegado, a ribald farce set among the souks and slave markets of Barbary. With its cast of eunuchs, viziers and lusty viceroys—and its bawdy jokes about circumcision—it represented a world that was both comical and remote. When one of the characters is asked whether he will convert to Islam, he joshes that he is too attached to his foreskin:

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