portague. Reproduced by permission of the British Museum
23.1 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Merchant in Constantinople, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
23.2 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Prussian Merchant, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
23.3 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Merchant Noblewoman of Genoa, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
23.4 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Woman Merchant of Silesia, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
23.5 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Sultan Amurhat, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
23.6 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Janissary Soldier, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
23.7 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Turk in the Rain, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
23.8 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, A Turkish Woman, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)
24.1 The Great Market at Bantam, from Willem Lodewijckszoon, Historie van Indien (Amsterdam, 1598) © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved, shelfmark 1486.gg.18. Reproduced by permission
26.1 Richard Brathwaite’s The Honest Ghost or a Voice From the Vault. Reproduced by permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, shelfmark: 8°S. 350 Art
28.1 Pieter Breugel’s engraving, Big Fishes Eat the Little Fishes. Inv. 7875. Reproduced by permission of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928. Public Domain
Notes on Contributors
Bernadette Andrea is Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara; a core faculty in the Center for Middle East Studies; and an affiliate faculty in the Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Feminist Studies. She previously taught at the University of Texas, San Antonio, where she was the Celia Jacobs Endowed Professor in British Literature. She is the author of The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Her critical edition, English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 (University of Toronto, CRRS, 2012), was published in the series “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.” Her coedited collections include Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, with Patricia Akhimie (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, with Linda McJannet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
John Michael Archer is Professor of English at New York University. He received his BA and MA from the University of Toronto in 1982 and 1983, respectively, and his PhD from Princeton University in 1988. His first book, Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance (Stanford University Press, 1993), discusses the portrayal of political surveillance in the works of Montaigne, Marlowe, Bacon, and other authors. Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English Writing (Stanford University Press, 2001) analyzes European travel writings and literary works by Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden. His third monograph is titled Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). It combines recent historiography, philosophical considerations of citizenship, and the close reading of play texts to show how the London citizen and the immigrant city dweller each figure in the action and verbal texture of Shakespeare’s drama. The fourth book, Technically Alive: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Palgrave Macmillan) appeared in December 2012. Drawing on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Agamben, it traces correspondences between philosophical thought about technology and Shakespeare’s poetics of human and natural productivity. Recent interests include questions of technology; labor, life, and being as political concepts; rights and duties; and the tension between religion and theology.
Richmond Barbour is Professor of English Literature at Oregon State University. His research engages the material cultures of manuscript, print, and theater in early modern drama, travel writing, and maritime and corporate history. His essays have appeared in Clio, Criticism, Genre, the Huntington Library Quarterly, JEGP, PMLA, and several edited collections. He is the author of Before Orientalism. London’s Theatre of the East, 1576–1626 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607–1610 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), and The Loss of the “Trades Increase”: An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He is currently preparing a critical edition of Capt. John Saris’s 1611–1613 East India Company journal, which documents the first English voyage to Japan.
Crystal Bartolovich is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, where she teaches a wide range of courses in Marxist theory and cultural studies. With Jean Howard and David Hillman, she is the author of Marx and Freud, Great Shakespeareans (Contiuum, 2012). Her essays have appeared in numerous venues including New Formations, Cultural Critique, Angelaki and Minnesota Review. Her current project is titled “A Natural History of the Commons.”
Nandini Das is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. She works on Renaissance literature and cultural history, with special emphasis on travel and cross-cultural encounters between Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her publications include Robert Greene’s Planetomachia (Ashgate, 2007), Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570–1620 (Ashgate, 2011; republished by Routledge, 2016), Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama coedited with Nick Davis (Routledge, 2017), and the Cambridge History of Travel Writing coedited with Tim Youngs (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She is volume editor of Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia in the forthcoming edition of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations, to be published by Oxford University Press, and project director for the “Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England” (TIDE) project, funded by the European Research Council.
Jan de Hond is a curator of the History Department of the Rijksmuseum, where he is responsible for the seventeenth century. He wrote his dissertation on Orientalism in Dutch Culture, 1800–1920. He is specialized in Dutch colonial history and has published on the (cultural) relations between the Dutch Republic and the Moghul Safavid and Ottoman Empire.
Stephen Deng is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), editor of A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2019), and coeditor (with Barbara Sebek) of Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He has also written on the literary impacts on transformations in English commercial and colonial culture, c. 1620–1660; on the “new mathematics” and sexuality in Shakespeare’s sonnets; and on Sir Edward Coke’s translation of English common law and the establishment of a “juristic public” in seventeenth-century England. Currently, he is working on a second monograph tentatively titled “Hamlet and Accountability.”
Matthew Dimmock is Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. His research has focused on the interaction of peoples and ideas that took place as a consequence of early modern England’s “expansionary thrust” in the late sixteenth century. This research has generated a series of articles and monographs, including New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005), Mythologies of the Prophet