Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642

Acknowledgements

Note on Transcription Practices

List of Illustrations

Introduction: "Here, Come from the farthest Steppe of India": East India Company, Racecraft and Domestic Transculturation in early modern England

Before the Company (1575-1599)

1. Imagining India before East India Company: The Queen's Majesty's Entertainment at Woodstock and New Cartographies of Exchange

2. Changelings, Bottom, and Transnational Exchange: Finding the Indian in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Early Company Years (1600-1642)

3. Blackness and Spices: East India Company and Problems of Exchange in Civic Spectacle

4. Playing an Indian Queen: Curiosity Cabinets, Ethnography, and The Temple of Love

5. Epilogue: The Avatar Franchise and the Ghosts of Indians Past

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• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• Estudos literários: geral
• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• Estudos teatrais

East Indies trade;Performance thoery;Early modern England;Public theatres;Sixteenth century drama