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

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : illustrations 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 Summary 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 eastern sources and analyzes Richard Knolles?s citation of the?Turks? own chronicles,? the historiographic equivalent of letting the sultan speak. She demonstrates that while the historians increasingly contain the sultan?s words with adverse authorial commentary, playwrights such as Marlowe and Fulke Greville use both dialogue and commentary to enhance the sultan?s stature and to mitigate his negative acts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index Notes English Print version record Subject 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. DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. National characteristics, Turkish, in literature English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan Historiography Islam and literature Literature Public opinion, English Turks in literature SUBJECT Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Historiography Islamic countries -- Foreign public opinion, English Turkey -- In literature Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802 Subject England Islamic countries Turkey Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006046046 ISBN 9780230601499 0230601499 1281361070 9781281361073 9786611361075 6611361073

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