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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McJannet, Linda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.