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Informationen zum Autor Murat Ögütcü is Associate Professor and is currently working at Adiyaman University, Turkey. He is the Founder of the project Turkish Shakespeares and is a researcher at the AHRC-funded project Medieval and Early Modern Orients. His recent essays on his research interests include “Elizabethan Audience Gaze at History Plays: Liminal Time and Space in Shakespeare’s Richard II, ” “Of Pistols and Pikes: Weapons of War in Shakespeare’s Henry V ,” “Masculine Dreams: Henry V and the Jacobean Politics of Court Performance,” “Julius Caesar: Tyrannicide Made Unpopular,” “Shakespeare in Animation,” and “Teaching Shakespeare Digitally: The Turkish Experience.” Aisha Hussain received her PhD from the University of Salford, UK. Douglas Bruster is Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare ; Quoting Shakespeare ; Shakespeare and the Question of Culture ; and, with Robert Weimann, Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre . Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at University of Sheffield Hallam. She has published numerous works on Shakespeare including her most recent work, Beginning Shakespeare (2005) and has written on film adaptations including Screening the Gothic . She is the Senior Editor of the online journal, Early Modern Literary Studies. Vorwort A vibrant edited collection that analyzes how stage architecture, costume and performance effects shape the conceptualization of the East on the early modern English outdoor and indoor stage. Zusammenfassung Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializing the East in Early Modern English Drama focuses on the multi-layered, often conflicting and changing perceptions of the East and how dramatic works made use of their respective theatrical space to represent the concept of the East in drama. This volume re-examines the (mis)representation of the East on the early modern English outdoor and indoor stage and broadens our understanding of early modern theatrical productions beyond Shakespeare and the European continent. It traces the origin of conventional depictions of the East to university dramas and explores how they influenced the commercial stage. Chapters uncover how conflicting representations of the East were communicated on stage through the material aspects of stage architecture, costumes and performance effects. The collection emphasizes these material aspects of dramatic performances and showcases neglected plays, including George Salterne’s Tomumbeius , Robert Greene's The Historie of Orlando Furioso and Joseph Simons' Leo the Armenian, and puts them in conversation with William Shakespeare's The Tempest and John Fletcher's The Island Princess . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Murat Ögütcü (Adiyaman University, Turkey) and Aisha Hussain (University of Salford, UK) Part I. Civility, Commonality, and the Classics 1. Materializing Mamluks and Turks in Salterne’s Tomumbeius Murat Ögütcü (Adiyaman University, Turkey) 2. Cultural and Celestial Representations in Goffe’s The Courageous Turk Daniel Blank (Durham University, UK) 3. Byzantines in English Jesuit Drama: Performing Joseph Simons’ Leo the Armenian Mark Chambers (Durham University, UK) and Johnny Ignacio (Durham University, UK) Part II. Costume, Space, and Place 4. Dramatising Borders and Behaviours of the Eastern ‘Other’ in Greene’s Alphonsus and Orlando Furioso Aisha Hussain (University of Salford, UK) 5. Staging a Multicultural World in Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk Hana Fere...
