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The First Firangis chronicles the lives of fascinating yet little-known foreigners from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who decided to become Indian.The Indian subcontinent has been a land of immigrants for thousands of years: waves of migration from Persia, Central Asia, Mongolia, the Middle East and Greece have helped create India's exceptionally diverse cultural mix. In the centuries before the British Raj, when the Mughals were the...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on "European Shakespeares, " which highlights how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. Contributors to this issue come from Europe, North America, South Africa, and India. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, essays in this volume consider issues of character and the genre o...

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Untimely Matter in the Time of ShakespeareJonathan Gil Harris"A stylish, readable, and important intervention in early modern studies. In recalling a past that never was, it invites us to a future that might not be the same."--Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University"It is difficult to do justice here to the extraordinarily wide range of critical and theoretical models that Harris draws on, or the ease with which he brings them together. . . . Harr...

In this work, Professor Harris explores Shakespeare's play The Tempest to show how the play is driven by a waking dream in which progress towards a glorious future shades into recovery of a lost past.

Explores the material, economic and dramatic roles of stage properties in early modern English drama.

Sick EconomiesDrama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's EnglandJonathan Gil Harris"Sick Economies, wholeheartedly committed to the recovery of noncanonical early modern writing, shows what can happen when a keen literary intelligence is applied to nonliterary texts. The result is a truly interdisciplinary and refreshingly readable book."--Times Literary Supplement"In this important book Harris explores the early modern discourse of mer...

Discussing the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and H¿ne Cixous, Shakespeare and Literary Theory argues that literary theory is less an external set of ideas anachronistically imposed on Shakespeare's texts than a mode - or several modes - of critical reflection inspired by, and emerging from, his writing.

Examines attitudes to the body, disease and society in Tudor and early Stuart England.

This collection of essays studies the material, economic and dramatic roles played by stage properties in early modern English drama. Often, the received wisdom about the commercial stage in Shakespeare's time is that it was a bare one, uncluttered by objects. Staged Properties offers a critique of this view. The volume offers valuable evidence and insight into the modes of production, circulation and exchange that brought such properties as s...

Indography considers literary and non-literary representations of Indians in early modern English writing in relation to processes of globalization and race formation.

Examines attitudes to the body, disease and society in Tudor and early Stuart England.