CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Erkoc, Seda |
|---|---|
| Title | REPERCUSSIONS OF A MURDER- THE DEATH OF SEHZADE MUSTAFA ON EARLY MODERN ENGLISH STAGE |
| Summary | A through analysis of the two English plays, the anonymous Cambridge play Solymannidae and Fulke Greville’s The Tragedy of Mustapha with specific attention to their sources, indicates that the representation of the Ottomans on the sixteenth century English stage was not always influenced by the transforming rhetoric on the Turk that emerged as a result of the socio-economic conditions of the period. Present literature assumes the variety of representations of the Ottomans to be a particular case in early modern England, which results from the Anglo-Ottoman proximity in the second half of the sixteenth century. This thesis argues that the European sources tend to have quite ambivalent representations of the Ottomans all throughout the early modern period and therefore rejects the idea of peculiarity of the English case. Besides, this thesis argues that the Anglo-Ottoman relations in the sixteenth century ended in not only a nuanced rhetoric on the Turks but also in a quite strict discourse that depicts the differences between the Turk and the English, which offered strong criticism of the influence of the Mediterranean ways on the English society. |
| Supervisor | Sebök, Marcell; Szőnyi, György Endre. |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/erkoc_seda.pdf |
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