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Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources Staging Asia

the Dutch East India Company and the Amsterdam theatre

|| Manjusha Kuruppath || Leiden University Press

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...