Introduction: cultures at play / Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel
Players and playgrounds. William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Müller
Performing at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: the case of Henry Lello / Gerald MacLean
Command performances: early English traders in Arabia Felix / Richmond Barbour
Strategic improvisation: Henry Blount in the Ottoman Empire / Sabine Schülting
Props and Costumes. English women in Oriental dress: playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Susanne Scholz
Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig
Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock
Encounters on stage. Ousting the Ottomans: the double vision of the East in The travels of the three English brothers (1607) / Ralf Hertel
Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter in music? / Clemens Risi
After Orientalism? post-September 11 culturalisms at play in Bambiland and The Persians / Claudia Breger.