The sultan speaks: dialogue in english plays and histories about the ottoman turks
McJannet, Linda
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. ÍNDICE: Introduction - 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 Reignof Sultan Orchan
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-7426-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 05/09/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés