The sultan speaks : dialogue in English plays and histories about the Ottoman Turks / Linda McJannet.

The sultan speaks : dialogue in English plays and histories about the Ottoman Turks / Linda McJannet.

The Sultan Speaks is the first study of English historical plays about the Turks in relation to their sources and analogues, including histories originating in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. Drawing on Bakhtin?s concept of the dialogic and on narrative theory, McJannet traces the transmission of these...

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Main Author: McJannet, Linda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
English drama > Turkic influences.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Islam and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Islam and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Turks in literature.
National characteristics, Turkish, in literature.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 > Historiography.
Islamic countries > Foreign public opinion, English.
Turkey > In literature.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries: Historicizing Rage and Representing Historical Speech
  • Sixteenth-century Histories of the Turks: Shocking Speech and Edifying Dicta
  • Marlowe's Turks
  • "History written by the enemy": Eastern Sources about the Ottomans
  • Citing "the Turkes own chronicles": Knolles's Generall Historie of the Turkes
  • Horrible acts and wicked offenses: Suleyman and Mustapha in Narrative and Drama
  • Epilogue after Knolles: William Seaman's The Reign of Sultan Orchan.

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