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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451208303321

Autore

McJannet Linda

Titolo

The sultan speaks [[electronic resource] ] : dialogue in English plays and histories about the Ottoman Turks / / Linda McJannet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36107-0

9786611361075

0-230-60149-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

822/.30932561

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 Historiography

Islamic countries Foreign public opinion, English

Turkey In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Preliminaries: Historicizing Rage and Representing Historical Speech; 2 Sixteenth-century Histories of the Turks: Shocking Speech and Edifying Dicta; 3 Marlowe's Turks; 4 ""History written by the enemy"": Eastern Sources about the Ottomans; 5 Citing ""the Turkes' Own Chronicles"": Knolles' Generall Historie of the Turkes; 6 Horrible Acts and Wicked Offenses: Suleyman and Mustapha in Narrative and Drama; Epilogue: After Knolles: William Seaman's The Reign of Sultan Orchan; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first study of English historical plays about the Turks, using works in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. Drawing on Bakhtin's concept of the



dialogic, McJannet shows that instead of adverse authorial commentary playwrights such as Marlowe and Fulke Greville use dialogue and commentary to enhance the sultan's stature and mitigate his negative acts.