speaking muslim subaltern through the ethical agent in shakespeare and the holy quran

William shakespeare, the english bard of avon, inaugurates a feminist approach in love’s labour’s lost which is comparable with the holy quran’s mandate and hadith. he reminisces muslim association (including ethiop, black, moors, africans, and so on) through deeply-seated words of the elizabethan era in order to signify in his work the islamic concern for the muslim women in terms of respect, love, and revival of rights. riffat hassan’s theology of honor killing and progressive islam could be argued to be in thematic affinity with gayatri spivak’s concepts of the ethical responsibility of the agents and subalterns. the area of concern in shakespeare’s plays encompasses men’s sanction in shunning women, intellectual men vs. slave, black and inferior women, and love, marriage, and infatuation with women. this is in line with quranic principles namely poor muslim lifestyle vs. the affluent pagan hegemony, muslim’s faith, migration to ommat, and reception by the hegemonic pagans. the major objective of the present paper is to read shakespeare’s dramatic works in terms of riffat hassan’s islamic feminist approach.