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"Barbour s volume makes available essential documentation for the history of the East India Company in the critical opening years of its existence. The journals of the first English voyage to reach the Indian subcontinent are here fully edited and described for the first time; they are essential for an understanding of the beginnings of the British colonial enterprise, but they also relate in surprising ways to the mercantile enterprise that constituted the Shakespearean stage. Barbour is a gifted expositor and an excellent editor. This is an exciting and important book." - Stephen Orgel, J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
"Barbour s extensive and thorough introduction shows some of the riches here: ethnography, commerce, literacy, sailing, grievous danger, performance in a variety of forms, including, it seems, Shakespeare s Hamlet and Richard II performed aboard General Keeling s Dragon. Combined, the journals mesmerize and surprise as English merchants and sailors risk unknown seas and interact with the skilled sailors and sophisticated merchants of East and Southeast Asia." - A. R. Braunmuller, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCLA
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Book Title: The Third Voyage Journals
Book Subtitle: Writing and Performance in the London East India Company, 1607-10
Authors: Richmond Barbour
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100886
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61675-2Published: 18 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38016-9Published: 18 December 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10088-6Published: 26 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 285
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Cultural Anthropology, History of Britain and Ireland, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature