Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 From Maurice to Muhammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism

Chapter 3 Islam, Race, and Political Legitimacy in Ralegh’s The Life and Death of Mahomet

Chapter 4 Persian Icons, Shi‘a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage

Chapter 5 The Tartar King’s Masque and Performances of Imperial Desire in Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania

Chapter 6 Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India

Chapter 7 “by my owne experience or the Most probablest Relation off others”: Manuscript Travel Writing and Peter Mundy’s “Relation” of Constantinople (1617–20)

Chapter 9 “Now will I be a Turke”: Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe’s The Courageous Turk

Chapter 10 The Frontiers of Twelfth Night

Chapter 11 “A Turk’s mustachio”: Anglo-Islamic Traffic and Exotic London in Ben Jonson’s Every Man out of His Humour and Entertainment at Britain’s Burse

Chapter 12 “Oranges and lemons say the Bells of St. Clement’s”: Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies