The Tragical Reign of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the Turks

The Tragical Reign of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the Turks

Author: Robert Greene

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021332189

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This play by Robert Greene tells the story of Selimus, an Ottoman emperor who struggles to maintain his power against a backdrop of political intrigue and betrayal. Originally published in the late 16th century, the play was lost for many years before being rediscovered in the 20th century. This edition includes commentary and annotations to help modern readers understand and appreciate the work of one of the most important playwrights of the Elizabethan era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1350030929

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Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultaneously shocking and playful approach to violent revenge and bodily mutilation. Jonathan Bate's original Arden edition was first published in 1995 and has had a significant influence on how the play has been performed and studied in the past 20 years. This revised edition includes a new 10,000 word introductory essay in which Bate reassess his views on the play's co-authorship with George Peele in the light of contemporary textual scholarship and updates his lively account of the play's performance history, on the international stage and screen. With detailed on-page commentary notes this will continue to be the edition of choice for students, scholars and theatre-makers.


Shakespeare and the Book Trade

Shakespeare and the Book Trade

Author: Lukas Erne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0521765668

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This study establishes the remarkable presence of Shakespeare's plays and poems in the early modern English book trade.


Three romances of Eastern conquest

Three romances of Eastern conquest

Author: Ladan Niayesh

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-11-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1526107937

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This volume brings together three little-known works by key playwrights from the late sixteenth-century golden age of English drama. All three convey the public theatre's fascination with travel and adventure through the popular genre of heroic romance, while reflecting the contemporaries' wide range of responses to cross-cultural contacts with the Muslim East and the Mediterranean challenges posed by the Ottoman empire. The volume presents the first modern-spelling editions of the three plays, with extensive annotations catering for specialised scholars while also making the texts accessible to students and theatre-goers. A detailed introduction discusses issues of authorship, dates and sources, and sets the plays in their historical and cultural contexts, offering exciting insights on Elizabethan performance strategies, printing practices, and the circulation of knowledge and stereotypes related to ethnic and religious difference.


The Reckoning

The Reckoning

Author: Charles Nicholl

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1995-07-15

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0226580245

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In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady. Nicholls penetrates four centuries of obscurity to reveal a complex story of entrapment and betrayal. Winner of the Crime Writer's Gold Dagger Award for a nonfiction thriller.