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Subject(s)

• English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600—Themes, motives [Browse]
• Theater—Economic aspects—England—History—16th century [Browse]
• Theater—Economic aspects—England—History—17th century [Browse]
• Turks in literature [Browse]
• Turkey—History—Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918—In literature [Browse]

Series

• Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) [More in this series]
• Early modern literature in history

Summary note

This book considers the relationship between the vogue for putting the Ottoman Empire on the English stage and the repertory system that underpinned London playmaking. The sheer visibility of 'the Turk' in plays staged between 1567 and 1642 has tended to be interpreted as registering English attitudes to Islam, as articulating popular perceptions of Anglo-Ottoman relations, and as part of a broader interest in the wider world brought home by travellers, writers, adventurers, merchants, and diplomats. Such reports furnished playwrights with raw material which, fashioned into drama, established 'the Turk' as a fixture in the playhouse. But it was the demand for plays to replenish company repertories to attract London audiences that underpinned playmaking in this period. Thus this remarkable fascination for the Ottoman Empire is best understood as a product of theatre economics and the repertory system, rather than taken directly as a measure of cultural and historical engagement.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• 1453 and all that
• Henslowe's Turks
• The Turk play and repertory modelling
• Shakespeare's Turks
• Conclusion: repertory geographies and theatergoing
• Appendices: A. the Turk Play, 1567-1642
• B. From Richard Knolles, Generall Historie of the Turks (1603), pp. 350-353.

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ISBN

• 9781137462626 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
• 1137462620 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))

LCCN

2017953778

OCLC

1000040240

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