"In the period between 1579 and 1624 over sixty dramatic works featuring Islamic themes, characters, or settings were produced in England. Muslim figures were prominent in every genre of dramatic performance, from comedy, romance, and tragedy to civic pageantry and closet drama.…
Talking about the Enemy: Erasmus Francisci's (1627-1694) Writings about the Turk -- The Turk in Fact and Fiction: Eberhard Werner Happel (1647-1690) -- Crossing Borders: The Adventures of Speer's Improbable Heroes, Simplicissimus and Eulenspiegel -- Conclusion. "Even a casual p…
"Even a casual perusal of seventeenth-century European print production makes clear that the Turk was on everyone's mind. Europe's confrontation of and interaction with the Ottoman Empire in the face of what appeared to be a relentless Ottoman expansion spurred news delivery and…
"Even a casual perusal of seventeenth-century European print production makes clear that the Turk was on everyone's mind. Europe's confrontation of and interaction with the Ottoman Empire in the face of what appeared to be a relentless Ottoman expansion spurred news delivery and…
Yerli ve milli sırlar: modern Türkiye'ye edebiyat üzerinden bakışlar
by Ural, Tülin
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Of all the English Romantic poets Byron is often thought of as the one who was most familiar with the East. His travels, it is claimed, give him a huge advantage with which contemporaries like Southey, Moore, Shelley, and Coleridge, who had comparable ori.
Byron and orientalism
Byron and Orientalism
Of all the English Romantic poets Byron is often thought of as the one who was most familiar with the East. His travels, it is claimed, give him a huge advantage with which contemporaries like Southey, Moore, Shelley, and Coleridge, who had comparable ori.
"New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England explores the ways in which print culture helped define and promulgate a European construction of Turkishness' that was nebulous and ever shifting. By placing in context the developing encounters between the …