Five Osmans. The Ottoman Crisis of 1622 in Early Seventeenth Century Literature

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168 s, İngilizce.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction

• History
• Research objectives
  The texts 
  The image of the Turk
   
• Approach and method
  Contemporaneity
  Common places
   
• Structure
• Note on terminology, transcription and translation

1. The news of Osman’s fall

• The sources
• The commonplaces
  The Enemy
  The Barbarian
  Divine intervention
  Disorder
• Conclusion

2. The poets 

• Denis Coppée
• Abraham Kemp
• Ivan Tomko Mrnavić
• Ivan Gundulić
• Dede Ağa
• Conclusion
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3. Osman in the Low Countries: history plays by Kemp and Coppée 

• The plays
  Coppée’s Deplorable Assassination
  Kemp’s Tragedy
  Far from the Turks
• Coppée and the Ottomans
  A poor little prince
  A contrast
• Kemp and the Ottomans
  Better loved than feared
  A future
• Conclusion 

4. Better the devil you know? Gundulić and Mrnavić on the fall of Osman II 

• The texts
  ​Ivan Tomko Mrnavić’s Osmanschica 
  ​Ivan Gundulić’s Osman
  Close to the Turk
• A tyrant, or an incapable prince
  Mrnavić and Osman
  Gundulić and Osman
• A Battle of the opposites
• Conclusion

5. Dede Ağa and the two sultans 

• The padishah is dead… …long live the padishah!
• The old élite
• Conclusion

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index