| The Sultan Speaks: Dialogue in English Plays and Histories about the Ottoman Turks 2006 Edition Contributor(s): McJannet, L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403974268 ISBN-13: 9781403974266 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) - History | Eastern Europe - General - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.309 |
| LCCN: 2006046046 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.8" W x 8.57" (0.88 lbs) 245 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Greville use dialogue and commentary to enhance the sultan's stature and mitigate his negative acts. |