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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700Publication details: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781409438519
  • 1409438511
  • 9781280677533
  • 1280677538
  • 9781409438502
  • 1409438503
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East : Performing Cultures.DDC classification:
  • 303.482410561 790.2094
LOC classification:
  • PN2570 .E24 2012
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 15.70
  • 15.75
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)460616

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.

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.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.