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The Sultan Speaks : Dialogue in English Plays and Histories about the Ottoman Turks / by L. McJannet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McJannet, Linda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature.
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- 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.
- Local Subjects:
- European Literature.
- European History.
- Modern History.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Theatre and Performance Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361075
- 9781281361073
- 1281361070
- 9780230601499
- 0230601499
- OCLC:
- 314828873
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