TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schülting,Sabine
AU  - Müller,Sabine Lucia
AU  - Hertel,Ralf
TI  - Early modern encounters with the Islamic East: performing cultures 
T2  - Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
SN  - 9781409438519 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PN2570 .E24 2012 
U1  - 303.482410561790.2094 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Farnham
PB  - Ashgate Pub.
KW  - Europe
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Islamic influences
KW  - Relations
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - European influences
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - History
KW  - Theater
KW  - Fine Arts
KW  - Social Science
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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