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

Name: Staging Asia
Brand: Leiden University Press
SKU: 9789087282578
Price: 8450 KES
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ISBN: 9789087282578

by Manjusha Kuruppath

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources

ISBN-10 9087282575

ISBN-13 9789087282578

Publisher Leiden University Press

Imprint Leiden University Press

Country of Manufacture NL

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 1st, 2017

Print length 282 Pages

Product Classification: Plays, playscripts Society & culture: general

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How is it possible that three playwrights in the early modern Dutch Republic wrote dramas based on contemporary political events in Asia? Reflecting on this remarkable phenomenon, Staging Asia traces the passage of the stories surrounding three political revolutions from seventeenth-century Asia through to the Dutch Republic and their ultimate manifestation as dramas. This book explores the nature of the representation of the Orient in these plays and evaluates how this characterization was influenced by the channels that these dramatists relied on to gather information for their works. As these dramas exhibit strong connections to the Dutch East India Company, this work additionally examines the role of that enterprise in disseminating information on Asia and producing imagery about the Orient.

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