England's Asian Renaissance

  England's Asian Renaissance: An Introduction                        
Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli
 
 
Part 1    The Eurasian Continuum
 
1    The Ottomans in and of Europe                           
Abdulhamit Arvas
 
2    Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit                           
Nedda Mehdizadeh
 
3    The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination    
Thea Buckley
 
Part 2    Religious and Cultural Negotiations
 
4    Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe's Sigismund and the Making     
of Europe
Jennifer Feather
 
5    Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies               
Amrita Sen
 
6    Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early         
Modern England
Rachana Sachdev
 
Part 3    Making the English Stage Eastern
 
7    Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity,    
Admiration, and Authority in 1604
Emily Soon
 
8    Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson's Entertainment at Britain's Bourse    
Richmond Barbour
 
Bibliography                                            
 
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