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Book contents
- Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
- Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I The Logic of Renewal
- Part II Agents of Renewal
- Part III The Appeal of the Old
- Chapter 7 Performing Nostalgia
- Chapter 8 A Century of English Drama
- Chapter 9 Cham’s Beard and Tartar’s Bow
- Part IV Making It New: Frames and Forms
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 9 - Cham’s Beard and Tartar’s Bow
Staging Mongolia in and after the Elizabethan Repertory
from Part III - The Appeal of the Old
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2026
Book contents
- Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
- Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I The Logic of Renewal
- Part II Agents of Renewal
- Part III The Appeal of the Old
- Chapter 7 Performing Nostalgia
- Chapter 8 A Century of English Drama
- Chapter 9 Cham’s Beard and Tartar’s Bow
- Part IV Making It New: Frames and Forms
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Mongolia hovers on the edge of early English drama: While no playtexts survive from the Elizabethan period featuring their history, there are consistent allusion to the peoples of the Tatary tribes unified under Chinggis Khan in English theatrical documents from 1536 onward. This chapter takes as a key case one of the eight surviving backstage-plots of the period to consider the stage life of Chinggis Khan inaugurated by the lost “Tamar Cham” plays. The two plays proved highly successful in the Elizabethan era and continued to haunt the paratextual record of early English performance into the late eighteenth century. The chapter explicates the financial data of the “Tamar Cham” plays in a repertorial context invested in Mediterranean tyrants to situate two newly discovered medieval source documents that together suggest a particular nostalgia in a fantasy if global unity.
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- Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama , pp. 168 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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