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Ouverture

Michael Hüttler (Vienna), Emily M. N. Kugler (Washington/DC) and Hans Ernst Weidinger (Vienna/Florence): Editorial

Forewords

Prologue:

Stefanie Steiner (Karlsruhe): Enchantment / Disenchantment: Conceptions of Harem and Seraglio in Selected Literary Sources from 1608 to 1852

Act I: English Authors of the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Anne Greenfield (Valdosta/GA): Veiled in the Seraglio: Whig Messaging in Mary Pix?s Tragedy Ibrahim (1696)

Hans-Peter Kellner (Copenhagen/Vienna): The Capturing of the Seraglio: From the Life and Work of Aaron Hill (1685-1750)

Emily M. N. Kugler (Washington/DC): Playing the Sultana: Erotic Capital and Commerce in Daniel Defoe?s Roxana (1724)

Michael J. Chappell (Danbury/CT): The Pleasures of Friendship and Society: Pekuah and the Arab?s Seraglio in Samuel Johnson?s Rasselas (1759)

Act II: Britain in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Jennifer L. Airey (Tulsa/OK): Justice and the Bashaw of Merryland: Harem Fantasy, Rape Narrative, and the Trial of Lord Baltimore (1768)

Isobel Grundy (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): English Women?s Various Harems

Gönül Bakay (Istanbul): Is it possible to have freedom in a prison? Emmeline Lott?s The Governess in Egypt (1865)

Act III: Byron: The Youth

Käthe Springer-Dissmann (Vienna): ?Now at length we?re off for Turkey, Lord knows when we shall come back!? Byron?s Grand Tour to the Bosphorus 1809-1811

Mi Zhou (Hong Kong): The Monster Within: Ali Pasha?s Seraglio in Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage

Walter Puchner (Athens): The Reception of Lord Byron in Greek Theatre and Drama in the Nineteenth Century

Act IV: Byron: The Sultana

Laura Tunbridge (Oxford/UK): ?The soft hours of Sardanapalus?: Music and Effeminacy in Stagings of Byron?s Seraglios

Marian Gilbart Read (Hampshire): ?SCHIAVA SON IO, CORSARO!?: does the escape from the harem dramatize the Risorgimento struggle in Verdi?s adaptation of Byron?s The Corsair (1814)?

Himmet Umunç (Ankara): In Search of Exoticism: Byron?s Reveries of the Ottoman Orient

Isabelle Moindrot (Tours): "Tamerlan": A ?Turkish? Opera by Peter von Winter for the Paris Opera (1802)

Act V: French Influences

Domenica Newell-Amato (Utica, NY): Of African Monsters and Eunuchs: Colonial Fashioning within the Harem of Jean Racine?s Bajazet (1672)

Michael Hüttler (Vienna): ?[F]ive hundred very happy women!?: The Harem as a Locus of Social and National Identities in Eighteenth-Century German-Language Theatre

Bent Holm (Copenhagen): The Ambiguous Harem: Moralism and Exoticism in Danish Harem Images of the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries

Andreas Münzmay (Frankfurt/Main): Musical Representations of the Seraglio in Eugène Scribe?s Vaudeville L?ours et le pacha and in its Adaptations in Nineteenth-Century European Theatre

Appendix

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