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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.
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