Staging Asia
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Staging Asia

The Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre

  1. 267 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Staging Asia

The Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam Theatre

About this book

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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Table of contents

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