Early modern encounters with the Islamic East-performing cultures
By: edited by Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel
Series: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409438502; 9781409438519
Subjects: Civilization; Theater; European influences; Islamic influences; Relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cultures at play / Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel; title: Players and playgrounds. William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Müller; title: Performing at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: the case of Henry Lello / Gerald MacLean; title: Command performances: early English traders in Arabia Felix / Richmond Barbour; title: Strategic improvisation: Henry Blount in the Ottoman Empire / Sabine Schülting; title: 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; title: Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig; title: Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock; title: Encounters on stage. Ousting the Ottomans: the double vision of the East in The travels of the three English brothers (1607) / Ralf Hertel; title: Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter in music? / Clemens Risi; title: After Orientalism? post-September 11 culturalisms at play in Bambiland and The Persians / Claudia Breger.