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Before orientalism : London's theatre of the East 1576-1626

"Before Orientalism examines early Anglo-Indian cultural relations through trade (with the establishment of the East India Company), tourism, and diplomacy and illuminates important differences between the reports of travelers and the representations of the London press and stage."
Print Book, English, 2003
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521650472, 052165047X
51855176
"The glorious empire of the Turks, the present terrour of the world"
Exotic persuasions in the playhouse
Imperial poetics in royal and civic spectacle
Thomas Coryate and the invention of tourism
Sir Thomas Roe and the embassy to India, 1615-1619