1. Daniel Vitkus, ‘Adventuring Heroes in the Mediterranean: Mapping the Boundaries of Anglo-Islamic Exchange on the Early Modern Stage’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37.1 (2007): 75–95.
2. See also Vitkus, Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570–1630 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
3. See, for example, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine, Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West (London: Reaktion, 2000). Nabil Matar’s invaluable work in revealing the extent and variety of English contacts with the Muslim world, and his now famous observation that ‘Renaissance Britons were far more likely to meet or to have met a Muslim than a Jew or an Indian’ (Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), p. 3)), has drawn some criticism for its rather static view of the Muslim on the early modern stage. See Burton, Traffic and Turning, pp. 20–1.
4. Niayesh, ‘Shakespeare’s Persians’, Shakespeare 4.2 (2008): 127–36 (pp. 130, 128).
5. See Vitkus, Turning Turk, pp. 1–24 (p. 23), 77–106; Lloyd Kermode, Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 4–5.