Selimus

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-55481-508-1
Verlag: Broadview Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

This Broadview Edition of Robert Greene’s Selimus is the first single-volume, modernized edition of this underrated dramatic gem in over a century. First published in 1594, the play grippingly stages the bloody fratricidal warfare inaugurating the reign of Selim I (1512-20) as emperor of the Ottoman Empire. Contributing to the expansion of the range of readily available non-Shakespearean early modern English plays, the edition is designed for scholars and students alike, in the study, classroom, or theatre. The critically edited text of the play is accompanied by a full introduction, comprehensive annotations, and ample contextual material from the early modern period, including Greene’s pamphlet Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements
Introduction
Robert Greene: A Brief Chronology of his Life and Times
A Note on the TextThe First Part of the Tragical Reign of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the TurksAppendix A: Robert Greene, Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit (1592)Appendix B: Atheism and Machiavellianism - 1. From Innocent Gentillet, A Discourse Upon the Means of Well Governing and Maintaining in Good Peace a Kingdom or Other Principality … Against Nicholas Machiavel the Florentine (1602)
- 2. Thomas Kyd, Letters to Sir John Puckering about Christopher Marlowe (1593)
- 3. Richard Baines, “A note containing the opinion of Christopher Marlowe concerning his damnable judgment of religion and scorn of God’s word” (1593)
- 4. From Francis Bacon, “Of Atheism” (1625)
Appendix C: Early Modern English Representations of Islam - 1. From George Whetstone, The English Mirror (1586)
- 2. From Anonymous, Sir Bevis of Hampton (1585)
- 3. From Giles Fletcher, The Policy of the Turkish Empire (1597)
Works Cited and Further Reading