Images of the harem in literature and theatre : a commemoration of Lord Byron's sojourn in the Ottoman Empire /

On 3 May 1810 George Gordon, Lord Byron, swam like the mythic Leander from Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont to Abydos on the Asian shore. The hero of his poem ""Don Juan"" has lived in "feminine disguise" in the sultan's harem for more than a century....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hüttler, Michael (Editor), Kugler, Emily M. N. (Editor), Weidinger, Hans Ernst (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Wien : Hollitzer, 2015.
Series:Ottoman Empire and European theatre ; 3.
Ottomania (Don Juan Archiv Wien) ; 5.
Subjects:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, > Baron, > 1788-1824 > Travel > Turkey.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, > Baron, > 1788-1824.
Theater > Europe > History.
Arts, European > Turkish influences.
Harems > Fiction.
Harems in art.
Literature > Themes, motives.
Théâtre > Europe > Histoire.
Littérature comparée > Thèmes, motifs.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Harems.
Theater.
Travel.
Europe.
Turkey.
Fiction.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:On 3 May 1810 George Gordon, Lord Byron, swam like the mythic Leander from Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont to Abydos on the Asian shore. The hero of his poem ""Don Juan"" has lived in "feminine disguise" in the sultan's harem for more than a century. To commemorate Byron's Don Juan, the third volume of the ""Ottoman Empire and European Theatre"" series focuses on the image of the harem in literature and theatre. Nineteen international contributors explore historical conceptions of the Ottoman harem and seraglio in British, French and South East European sources from the late seve.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
ISBN:9783990120729
3990120727
9783990120736
3990120735

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