Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
PART 1 Discourses of Diplomacy......Page 34
1 The Shah’s Two Ambassadors: The Travels of the Three English Brothers and the Global Early Modern......Page 36
2 Of Gifts, Ambassadors, and Copy-cats: Diplomacy, Exchange, and Difference in Early Modern India......Page 54
3 Representing the King of Morocco......Page 90
PART 2 Agents of Exchange......Page 106
4 Just Passing: Abbé Carré, Spy, Harem-lord, and ‘made in France’......Page 108
5 ‘After My Humble Dutie Remembered’: Factors and / versus Merchants......Page 126
6 Passengers, Spies, Emissaries, and Merchants: Travel and Early Modern English Identity......Page 142
PART 3 Language and Technologies of Mediation......Page 158
7 The Translator as Emissary: Continental Works about the Ottomans in England......Page 160
8 The Queen of Onor and her Emissaries: Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Dialogue with India......Page 180
9 Listening to the Emissary in Middleton’s No Wit, No Help Like a Woman’s......Page 206
PART 4 Transmission and Transformation......Page 218
10 ‘Backward and Abysm of Time’: Negotiating with the Dead in The Tempest......Page 220
11 ‘Thrown from the Rock’: Emissaries as Midwives and Impediments of a New World......Page 238
Bibliography......Page 250
Index......Page 270