The Sultan Speaks Dialogue in English Plays and Histories about the
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 Grevill
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D E P H O T
Linda McJannet
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THE SULTAN SPEAKS
© Linda McJannet, 2006. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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List of Illustrations
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1 Preliminaries: Historicizing Rage and Representing Historical Speech
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2 Sixteenth-century Histories of the Turks: Shocking Speech and Edifying Dicta
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Marlowe’s Turks
4 “History written by the enemy”: Eastern Sources about the Ottomans
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5 Citing “the Turkes’ Own Chronicles”: Knolles’ Generall Historie of the Turkes
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6 Horrible Acts and Wicked Offenses: Suleyma
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