Early modern encounters with the Islamic East [Texte imprimé] : performing cultures / edited by Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel

Bibliogr. p. [185]-198

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