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Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology. The volume advances questions about the history of globalization by focusing on how the expansion of global transit offered possibilities for interactions that included the testing of local identities through inventive experimentation with new and various forms of culture. Case studies show how the imposition of European economic, religious, political, and military models on other parts of the world unleashed unprecedented forces of invention as institutionalized powers came up against the creativity of peoples, cultural practices, materials, and techniques of making. In doing so, Making Worlds offers an important rethinking of how early globalization inconsistently generated ongoing dynamics of making, unmaking, and remaking worlds

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The Player's Game -- 2. "The Madnes of Tenys" and the Commercialization of Pastimes in Early Tudor London -- 3. The Roll of the Dice and the Whims of Fate in Sixteenth-Century Morality Drama -- 4. "The games afoote" -- Part II -- 5. Playing with Paradoxes in Troilus and Cressida -- 6. Bowling Alone, or The Whole Point of No Return -- 7. Playing (in) the Streets -- Part III -- 8. The Moods of Gamification in The Tempest -- 9. Videogames and Hamlet -- 10. Shakespeare Videogames, Adaptation/ Appropriation , and Collaborative Reception -- 11. Shakespeare, Game, and Play in Digital Pedagogical Shakespeare Games -- Epilogue: Field of Play -- Index