TY - BOOK AU - Schulting,Sabine AU - Muller,Sabine Lucia AU - Hertel,Ralf ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Early modern encounters with the Islamic East: performing cultures T2 - Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 AV - PN2570 .E24 2012 U1 - 790.2094 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Theater KW - Europe KW - History KW - Performing arts KW - Islamic Empire KW - Civilization KW - Islamic influences KW - European influences KW - Relations KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: cultures at play / Sabine Schulting, Sabine Lucia Muller and Ralf Hertel -- Players and playgrounds. William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Muller -- 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 Schulting -- 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=932437 ER -