Introduction: From the Orient as Theater to the Orient in the Theater --
pt. I. Domestic Exoticism. 1. Nineteenth-Century Popular Theater: Institutions and Practices. 2. Exotic Tragedy: The Orient on the Ancien Regime Stage. 3. Exotic Boundaries: Reading the Censors. 4. Oriental Escapades: Les Ruines de Babylone, or Positioning the European Spectator --
pt. II. Dramatic Campaigns. 5. National Images: From La Bataille d'Aboukir to Bonaparte en Egypte, or The Evolution of National Drama. 6. Fictions of War: Reading the Critics. 7. Oriental Campaigns in Print and on Stage. 8. Occident versus Orient: Les Massacres de Syrie and the Recasting of History. Conclusion: From Stage to Screen.