Early modern encounters with the Islamic East : performing cultures / / edited by Sabine Schulting, Sabine Lucia Muller and Ralf Hertel.

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Superior document:Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
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Physical Description:xiii, 206 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: cultures at play / Sabine Schulting, Sabine Lucia Muller and Ralf Hertel
  • Players and playgrounds. William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Muller
  • Performing at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: the case of Henry Lello / Gerald MacLean
  • Command performances: early English traders in Arabia Felix / Richmond Barbour
  • Strategic improvisation: Henry Blount in the Ottoman Empire / Sabine Schulting
  • Props and Costumes. English women in Oriental dress: playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Susanne Scholz
  • Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig
  • Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock
  • Encounters on stage. Ousting the Ottomans: the double vision of the East in The travels of the three English brothers (1607) / Ralf Hertel
  • Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter in music? / Clemens Risi
  • After Orientalism? post-September 11 culturalisms at play in Bambiland and The Persians / Claudia Breger.