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Nat Cutter

is an early career historian based at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He researches diplomatic, economic, cultural and social histories of relations between Britain and the early modern Maghreb, and is interested in cross-cultural engagement, social networking, media representations, religion, digital humanities and piracy.
Performing Diplomacy and Selling Spectacle
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Performing Diplomacy and Selling Spectacle

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a guest post by Nat Cutter In this post, following on from a previous one on Shakespeare and Beyond that introduced my ASECS-Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship project, I’ll share some of the (still ongoing) findings of my research into North African…

Performance, advertising, and Anglo-Maghrebi diplomacy in Restoration and Augustan London
The Moroccan ambassador on horseback
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Performance, advertising, and Anglo-Maghrebi diplomacy in Restoration and Augustan London

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In February 1682, it was reported in the London newspaper Loyal Protestant, and True Domestic Intelligence that ‘His Excellency the Morocco Ambassador is exceedingly well pleased with his Entertainments; Insomuch that he declared, that he thought there were not such…