Staging Asia: The Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre

ISBN-13: 9789087282578 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 282 str.

Manjusha Kuruppath

Opis

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 ultimate appearance in Europe as Dutch dramas. Manjusha Kuruppath explores the nature of the representation of the Orient in these works and evaluates how this characterization was influenced by the channels, including some connected to the Dutch East India Company, that the dramatists relied on to gather information for their plays.

Spis treści

Table of Contents
Introduction9
Chapter 1. The Republic, Its Stage, and Its East India Company
Chapter 2. When Vondel Looked Eastwards: Joost Van Den Vondel’s Zungchin (1667
Chapter 3. Casting Despots in Dutch Drama: The Case of Nadir Shah in Van Steenwyk’s Thamas Koelikan (1745)
Chapter 4: Swimming against the Tide: Onno Zwier Van Haren’s Agon, Sulthan Van Bantam (1769)
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index