performing cultures Schülting, Sabine. Müller, Sabine Lucia. Hertel, Ralf. text Electronic books. xx Farnham Ashgate Pub. 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (223 p.) An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection offers new perspectives on how these cultural contacts were acted out on the real and metaphorical stages of theatre, literature, music, diplomacy and travel. Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Cultures at Play; Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel; Part 1 Players and Playgrounds; 1 William Harborne's Embassies: Scripting, Performing and Editing Anglo-Ottoman Diplomacy; Sabine Lucia Müller; 2 Performing at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: The Case of Henry Lello; Gerald MacLean; 3 Command Performances: Early English Traders in Arabia Felix; Richmond Barbour; 5 English Women in Oriental Dress: Playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana; Susanne Scholz. 6 Painting the 'Orient'? Dosso Dossi's MelissaWibke Joswig; 7 Materialising Islam on the Early Modern English Stage; Matthew Dimmock; Part 3 Encounters on Stage; 8 Ousting the Ottomans: The Double Vision of the East in The Travels of the Three English Brothers (1607); Ralf Hertel; 9 Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): A Christian-Muslim Encounter in Music?; Clemens Risi; 10 After Orientalism? Post-September 11 Culturalisms at Play in Bambiland and The Persians; Claudia Breger; Bibliography; Index. edited by Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel. e------ aw----- ff----- e-sp--- Europe Civilization Islamic influences Europe Relations Islamic Empire Islamic Empire Civilization European influences Islamic Empire Relations Europe Performing arts Europe History Performing arts Islamic Empire Theater Europe History Fine Arts Social Science SPORTS & RECREATION / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization 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 PN2570 .E24 2012 303.482410561 790.2094 Schülting, Sabine Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, c2012 9781409438519 (electronic bk.) 1409438511 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=932437 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=460616 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=932437 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=460616 EBLCP 120611 20200709055538.0 ocn795120336 eng