A Companion to the Global Renaissance

13.1 From Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (London, c.1607), plate 103, Map of Islandia . Call #: STC 18855. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

15.1 Sir Robert Sherley c. 1627. © Image courtesy of the Trustees of the Berkeley Will Trust

16.1 Willem Schellinks, Shah Jahan and his Four Sons . Musée Guimet, Paris

16.2 Willem Schellinks, Parade of the Sons of Shah Jahan on Composite Horses and Elephants . Victoria and Albert Museum, London

16.3 Willem Schellinks, Hunting Scene with Shah Jahan and his Sons . Museum of Islamic Art, DOHA. Reproduced by permission of the RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, The Netherlands

16.4 Hans Jurriaenszoon van Baden, Interior of the Amsterdam Theatre . Reproduced by permission of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA

16.5 S. Savry, Het toneel van de eerste Amsterdamse Schouwburg , engraving 1658. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

17.1 Original Grant of Arms to John Hawkins, 1565, with the Augmentation (1571)pinned to the original. Image courtesy of the North Devon Record Office and North Devon Athenaeum, Barnstaple, UK

17.2 Pen and Ink Sketch of the Hawkins Arms. College of Arms MS Misc. Grants 1, fol. 148r. Reproduced by permission of the Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants of Arms

19.1 Mexican Sacrifice based on José de Acosta’s descriptions; Theodore De Bry, Americae, Pars Dvodecima (Frankfurt, 1624); © Huntington Library. Public domain

20.1 A clipped French crown and a counterfeit portague . Reproduced by permission of the British Museum

23.1 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Merchant in Constantinople, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

23.2 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Prussian Merchant, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

23.3 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Merchant Noblewoman of Genoa, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

23.4 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Woman Merchant of Silesia, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

23.5 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Sultan Amurhat, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

23.6 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Janissary Soldier, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

23.7 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, Turk in the Rain, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

23.8 Woodcut, Cesare Vecellio, A Turkish Woman, Degli Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590)

24.1 The Great Market at Bantam , from Willem Lodewijckszoon, Historie van Indien (Amsterdam, 1598) © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved, shelfmark 1486.gg.18. Reproduced by permission

26.1 Richard Brathwaite’s The Honest Ghost or a Voice From the Vault . Reproduced by permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, shelfmark: 8°S. 350 Art

28.1 Pieter Breugel’s engraving, Big Fishes Eat the Little Fishes . Inv. 7875. Reproduced by permission of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928. Public Domain

Bernadette Andreais Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara; a core faculty in the Center for Middle East Studies; and an affiliate faculty in the Comparative Literature Program and the Department of Feminist Studies. She previously taught at the University of Texas, San Antonio, where she was the Celia Jacobs Endowed Professor in British Literature. She is the author of The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Her critical edition, English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 (University of Toronto, CRRS, 2012), was published in the series “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.” Her coedited collections include Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World , with Patricia Akhimie (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds , with Linda McJannet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

John Michael Archeris Professor of English at New York University. He received his BA and MA from the University of Toronto in 1982 and 1983, respectively, and his PhD from Princeton University in 1988. His first book, Sovereignty and Intelligence: Spying and Court Culture in the English Renaissance (Stanford University Press, 1993), discusses the portrayal of political surveillance in the works of Montaigne, Marlowe, Bacon, and other authors. Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English Writing (Stanford University Press, 2001) analyzes European travel writings and literary works by Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden. His third monograph is titled Citizen Shakespeare: Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). It combines recent historiography, philosophical considerations of citizenship, and the close reading of play texts to show how the London citizen and the immigrant city dweller each figure in the action and verbal texture of Shakespeare’s drama. The fourth book, Technically Alive: Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Palgrave Macmillan) appeared in December 2012. Drawing on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Agamben, it traces correspondences between philosophical thought about technology and Shakespeare’s poetics of human and natural productivity. Recent interests include questions of technology; labor, life, and being as political concepts; rights and duties; and the tension between religion and theology.

Richmond Barbouris Professor of English Literature at Oregon State University. His research engages the material cultures of manuscript, print, and theater in early modern drama, travel writing, and maritime and corporate history. His essays have appeared in Clio , Criticism , Genre , the Huntington Library Quarterly, JEGP , PMLA , and several edited collections. He is the author of Before Orientalism. London’s Theatre of the East, 1576–1626 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), The Third Voyage Journals: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607–1610 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009), and The Loss of the “Trades Increase”: An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He is currently preparing a critical edition of Capt. John Saris’s 1611–1613 East India Company journal, which documents the first English voyage to Japan.

Crystal Bartolovichis Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, where she teaches a wide range of courses in Marxist theory and cultural studies. With Jean Howard and David Hillman, she is the author of Marx and Freud, Great Shakespeareans (Contiuum, 2012). Her essays have appeared in numerous venues including New Formations, Cultural Critique , Angelaki and Minnesota Review . Her current project is titled “A Natural History of the Commons.”

Nandini Dasis Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. She works on Renaissance literature and cultural history, with special emphasis on travel and cross-cultural encounters between Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her publications include Robert Greene’s Planetomachia (Ashgate, 2007), Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction, 1570–1620 (Ashgate, 2011; republished by Routledge, 2016), Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama coedited with Nick Davis (Routledge, 2017), and the Cambridge History of Travel Writing coedited with Tim Youngs (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She is volume editor of Elizabethan Levant Trade and South Asia in the forthcoming edition of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations , to be published by Oxford University Press, and project director for the “Travel, Transculturality and Identity in Early Modern England” (TIDE) project, funded by the European Research Council.