The third voyage journals : writing and performance in the London East India Company, 1607-10 /[edited by] Richmond Barbour.

"Barbour's extensive and thorough introduction shows some of the riches here: ethnography, commerce, literacy, sailing, grievous danger, performance in a variety of forms, including, it seems, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "Richard II" performed aboard General Keeling's "Dragon". Combined, the journals mesmerize and surprise as English merchants and sailors risk unknown seas and interact with the skilled sailors and sophisticated merchants of East and Southeast Asia."--A. R. Braunmuller, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UCLA from back cover.