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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969785603321

Autore

McJannet Linda

Titolo

The Sultan Speaks : Dialogue in English Plays and Histories about the Ottoman Turks / / by L. McJannet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9786611361075

9781281361073

1281361070

9780230601499

0230601499

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

822/.30932561

Soggetti

European literature

Europe - History

History, Modern

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Performing arts

Theater

European Literature

European History

Modern History

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Theatre and Performance Arts

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.