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This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre's fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries' wide range of responses to cross-cultural contacts with the Muslim East and the Mediterranean challenges posed by the Ottoman empire. The volume presents the first modern-spelling editions of the three plays, with extensive annotations catering for specialised scholars while also making the texts accessible to students and theatre-goers. A detailed introduction discusses issues of authorship, dates and sources, and sets the plays in their historical and cultural contexts, offering exciting insights on Elizabethan performance strategies, printing practices, and the circulation of knowledge and stereotypes related to ethnic and religious difference.

English drama --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Early Modern Drama. --- Heroic Romance. --- Muslim East. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Robert Greene. --- Thomas Heywood. --- Thomas Kyd.

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The concept of resonance collapses the binary between subject and object, perceiver and perceived, evoking a sound or image that is prolonged and augmented by making contact with another surface. This collection uses resonance as an innovative framework for understanding the circulation of people and objects between England and its multiple Asian Easts. Moving beyond Saidian Orientalism to engage with ongoing critical conversations in the fields of connected history, material culture, and thing theory, it offers a vibrant range of case studies that consider how meanings accrue and shift through circulation and interconnection from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Spanning centuries of traveling translations, narratives, myths, practices, and other cultural phenomena, Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England puts forth resonance not just as a metaphor, but a mode of investigation.

World history. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Literature, Modern. --- Books-History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- History of the Book. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Universal history --- History --- Orientalism --- East and West --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Books—History.

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Les puissances d’en bas sont dangereuses à proportion de leur force d’attraction. Les lieux que le diable fréquente apportent délassements et distractions en tous genres mais les lumières éblouissantes de la fête cachent aussi d’insondables ténèbres. Marie Stuart constitue, à cet égard, la parfaite incarnation d’une royauté vouée à la diabolisation. Telle quelle est décrite par ses adversaires, la « Vénus écossaise » incarne le double visage de la douceur et du péché, tandis que la Vénus ironique mise en scène par Chaucer n’est plus garante des seules délices : elle ouvre aussi les portes de l'enfer et de l’amour tourné en dérision. Marlowe affirmera avec panache le paradoxe d’une tyrannie délicieuse, celle de la fureur héroïque de Tamerlan. Mais c’est avec le docteur Faust, qui choisit la magie et l’utopie de sa libido sciendi qu'il montre comment les délices de départ se changent en enfer. Qu'il s’agisse de Marie Stuart ou de la duchesse de Malfi, de la Vénus antique revue et corrigée par Chaucer ou encore de la Jeanne d’Arc de Shakespeare, les délices comme les enfers sont souvent incarnés par les figures du féminin dans l'Angleterre de la Renaissance. Marlowe reste l’exception avec cette nouvelle figure du tragique qu’est l’ambitieux foudroyé, personnage aussi flamboyant qu’autodestructeur, ambigu, imprévisible, et donc éminemment moderne.

English literature --- Renaissance --- History and criticism. --- féminin --- plaisir --- diable --- enfers