03346nam 2200733Ia 450 991078423990332120230828225213.01-281-36107-097866113610750-230-60149-910.1057/9780230601499(CKB)1000000000342533(EBL)308317(OCoLC)314828873(SSID)ssj0000253568(PQKBManifestationID)11194101(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253568(PQKBWorkID)10206303(PQKB)11742122(DE-He213)978-0-230-60149-9(MiAaPQ)EBC308317(Au-PeEL)EBL308317(CaPaEBR)ebr10167465(CaONFJC)MIL136107(OCoLC)567997609(EXLCZ)99100000000034253320060428d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sultan speaks[electronic resource] dialogue in English plays and histories about the Ottoman Turks /Linda McJannet1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20061 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53484-6 1-4039-7426-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.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; IndexThe 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.English dramaTurkic influencesEnglish dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600History and criticismIslam and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryIslam and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryTurks in literatureTurkeyHistoryOttoman Empire, 1288-1918HistoriographyIslamic countriesForeign public opinion, EnglishTurkeyIn literatureEnglish dramaTurkic influences.English dramaHistory and criticism.Islam and literatureHistoryIslam and literatureHistoryTurks in literature.822/.30932561McJannet Linda1562257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784239903321The sultan speaks3829779UNINA