The Tragedy Of Osmond The Great Turk

Author: Lodowick Carlell

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ISBN : 2471721522924
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pp.59. Edition limited to 500 copies. Printed from the edition of 1657; with an introduction by Allardyce Nicoll. Name in ink on fly leaf. Paper title label on cloth spine. Edges uncut. Endpapers age darkened, else very good.

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Samuel Chew pointed out that the treatment in the 1657 play of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 calls up the legend of ‘Irene’, the Greek captive with whom the victorious sultan falls in love. The Ottoman victory was seared into the Christian cultural memory, and playwrights exploited this knowledge, principally through the evocation of the predicament of the Christian maiden, who thus served as a metonym for the catastrophe.

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