Staging Asia : East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre /

In the early modern Dutch Republic, three playwrights wrote dramas based on political revolutions that were occurring at that same time in Asia. Reflecting on this remarkable phenomenon, Staging Asia traces the transmission of the stories surrounding the seventeenth-century Asian events and their ul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kuruppath, Manjusha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Colonial and global history through Dutch sources.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie > History > 17th century.
Orientalism in literature.
Theater > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Dutch drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Asia > In literature.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The republic, its stage, and its East India Company
  • 2. When Vondel looked eastwards : Joost Van Den Vondel's Zungchin (1667)
  • 3. Casting despots in Dutch drama : the case of Nadir Shah in van Steenwyk's Thamas Koelikan (1745)
  • 4. Swimming against the tide : Onno Zwier van Haren's Agon, Sulthan Van Bantam (1769)
  • Conclusion.

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