Richmond Barbour is Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University. His published articles have appeared in Criticism, Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), Journal of English and German Philology (JEGP) and The Huntington Library Quarterly.
Prelude: the cultural logistics of England's Eastern initiative
Part I. Staging 'the East' in England: 1. 'The glorious empire of the Turks, the present terrour of the world'
2. Exotic persuasions in the playhouse: Tamburlaine the Great
Antony and Cleopatra
3. Imperial poetics in royal and civic spectacle
Interlude: imaging home and travel
Part II. Inaugural Scenes in the Eastern Theatre: 4. Thomas Coryate and the invention of tourism
5. Sir Thomas Roe and the embassy to India, 1615-19
Afterword.
