The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries.

Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Re-Mapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings; G.V.Stanivukovic Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean; J.Burton Poisoned Figs, or "Traveler's Religion": Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture; D.Vitkus Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances; G.V.Stanivukovic Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War; E.V.Campos The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor; E.C.Bartels Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar; L.Barroll Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between; R.Wilson "Come from Turkey": Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London; A.Stewart Barnaby Riche's Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is "The Turk"?; C.C.Relihan Theatres of Empire in Milton's Epics; E.Sauer Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes; M.Birchwood Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and Tangier Papers; A.R.Beach From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern England; B.Andrea Afterword; D.Goffman