Old worlds : Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in early modern English writing
This book aligns ancient and early modern European travel narratives and historical surveys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia with texts that contributed to English ideas about those regions: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Love's Labour's Lost, Milton's Paradise Lost and Muscovia, and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe.
Print Book, English, 2001
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 241 pages ; 24 cm
9780804743372, 0804743371
48516108
Introduction: para-colonial studies
Antiquity and degeneration: the representation of Egypt and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Milton and the fall of Asia
Slave-born Muscovites: Sidney, Shakespeare, Fletcher, and the geography of servitude
The performance of India and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe