Selimus

ISBN-13: 9781554815081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Robert Greene;Mathew R. Martin

Opis

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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• Acknowledgements
  Introduction
  Robert Greene: A Brief Chronology of his Life and Times
  A Note on the Text

  The First Part of the Tragical Reign of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the Turks

  Appendix 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