Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures - Schülting, Sabine; Müller, Sabine Lucia; Hertel, Ralf, 1973- (Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012)
Introduction: cultures at play / Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel -- Players and playgrounds. William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Müller -- 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 Schülting -- 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.
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Keywords: Theater -- Europe -- History; Performing arts -- Europe -- History; Performing arts -- Islamic Empire; Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influences; Islamic Empire -- Civilization -- European influences; Europe -- Relations -- Islamic Empire; Islamic Empire -- Relations -- Europe; Electronic books