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Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642 Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company (2026) Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent, this book examines what it might have meant to perform as Indian in distinct economic and political spaces in early modern England.
Turning to the years leading up to and following the establishment of the East India Company, it explores how the arrival of new material imports intersected with questions of racecraft and cultural appropriation on the English stage. It sheds new light on the cultural impact of the East Indies trade by examining late sixteenth and early seventeenth century drama including public theatres, court masques, and civic pageantry. This book views England’s domestic and civic spaces as contact zones, where members of the monarchy or London companies performed as Indians in ritual or political drama. To perform India was to negotiate questions of racecraft, cosmopolitanism, and new English gains in global commerce.
https://www.routledge.com/Performing-India-in-Early-Modern-England-1575-1642-Commerce-Spectacle-and-the-Formation-of-the-East-India-Company/Sen/p/book/9789048559336
Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage: Extra-Theatrical Forms and Spaces (2025) is the first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances in late medieval and Renaissance England. This wider heterogeneous category of early modern performance included puppetry, fireworks shows, rope dancing, minstrelsy, performing animals, games, civic drama, court masques, university drama, morris dances, and ceremonial rituals, all taking place in a variety of venues.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/early-modern-performance-beyond-the-public-stage-9781350367982/
Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies (2025)provides a wide-ranging examination of engagements with and adaptations of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule. Arguing for the 'Post'Colonies as a distinct category within Global Shakespeares, this volume explores the reality of 21st-century Shakespeares in geographies of post-colonial and postcolonial inheritance .
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/shakespeare-in-the-postcolonies-9781350344150/
Digital Shakespeares from the Global South (2022) re-directs current conversations on digital appropriations of Shakespeare away from its Anglo-American bias. The individual essays examine digital Shakespeares from South Africa, India, and Latin America, addressing questions of accessibility and the digital divide. This book will be of interest to students and academics working on Shakespeare, adaptation studies, digital humanities, and media studies.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-04787-9
Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (2020) brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London.
https://www.routledge.com/Civic-Performance-Pageantry-and-Entertainments-in-Early-Modern-London/Finlayson-Sen/p/book/9781032174884
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