The Sultan Speaks
Subtitle: Dialogue in English Plays and Histories about the Ottoman Turks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 17, 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA; Basingstoke, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403974266
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Ethnic Groups In Literature; Literary Criticism; English; English drama; Middle East; History; Eastern Europe - General; Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Turkic influences; Drama; Middle East - General; 16th century; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; England; History and criticism; Islam and literature
Description: 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.
Table of contents: label: List of Illustrations
title: vi; label: Preface
pagenum: vii; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xii; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Preliminaries: Historicizing Rage and Representing Historical Speech
pagenum: 15; label: 2
title: Sixteenth-century Histories of the Turks: Shocking Speech and Edifying Dicta
pagenum: 33; label: 3
title: Marlowe’s Turks
pagenum: 63; label: 4
title: “History written by the enemy”: Eastern Sources about the Ottomans
pagenum: 91; label: 5
title: Citing “the Turkes’ Own Chronicles”: Knolles’ Generall Historie of the Turkes
pagenum: 119; label: 6
title: Horrible Acts and Wicked Offenses: Suleyman and Mustapha in Narrative and Drama
pagenum: 141; label: Epilogue
title: After Knolles: William Seaman’s The Reign of Sultan Orchan
pagenum: 169; label: Notes
pagenum: 181; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 221; label: Index
pagenum: 235