Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media

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

S幨ima 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

Danielle Legros Georges

12 Colonial 'Idea' and 'Work': The Evil in Marlow's Heart of Darkness

Ahmet Ser

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