Early modern encounters with the Islamic East  performing cultures /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Sabine Sch�ulting, Sabine Lucia M�uller and Ralf Hertel. 
 - Burlington, Vt. :  Ashgate,  2012. 
 - xiii, 206 p. :  ill. 
 - Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 .
 - Transculturalisms, 1400-1700. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: cultures at play / Sabine Sch�ulting, Sabine Lucia M�uller and Ralf Hertel -- Players and playgrounds. William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia M�uller -- 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 Sch�ulting -- 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781409438502 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409438519 (e-book) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Theater--History.--Europe<br/>Performing arts--History.--Europe<br/>Performing arts--Islamic Empire.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Civilization--Islamic influences.<br/>Islamic Empire--Civilization--European influences.<br/>Europe--Relations--Islamic Empire.<br/>Islamic Empire--Relations--Europe.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2570  / .E24 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>790.2094