The third voyage journals : writing and performance in the London East India Company, 1607-10 / [edited by] Richmond Barbour.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barbour, Richmond (Richmond Tyler)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--To 1625.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

East India Company.

East India Company--History--17th century--Sources.

Merchants--England--Diaries.

Merchants.

History.

England.

Genre:

Diaries.

Sources.

Physical Description:

x, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

These previously unpublished journals of England's first voyage to India illuminate a fascinating cultural achievement: the first performances of Shakespeare outside Europe. The journals of the London East India Company voice the ambitions divisions, and traumas of a pivotal moment in the emergence of global capitalism, as London's merchants strived for distant markets and cultivated relationships with non-Europeans. Barbour's commentary situates the voyage historically, describes the key personnel and writing community, examines the culture of performance at sea, and consolidates the evidence for the shipboard productions of Hamlet and Richard II.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 The Anonymous Hector Journal 33

3 The Hector Journal of Anthony Marlowe 75

4 The Hector Papers of Francis Bucke 149

5 The Red Dragon Journal of John Hearne and William Finch 155

6 Summary of William Keeling's Journal on the Red Dragon and the Hector 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780230616752

0230616755

OCLC:

314377537