Turks

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The Sultan Speaks is the first study of English historical plays about the Turks in relation to their sources and analogues, including histories originating in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. Drawing on Bakhtin’s concept of the dialogic and on narrative theory, McJannet traces the transmission of these eastern sources and analyzes Richard Knolles’s citation of the “Turks’ own chronicles,” the historiographic equivalent of letting the sultan speak. She demonstrates that while the historians increasingly contain the sultan’s words with adverse authorial commentary, playwrights such as Marlowe and Fulke Greville use both dialogue and commentary to enhance the sultan’s stature and to mitigate his negative acts.

After the latest historical researches of his time in 1892, and drawing upon all existing materials, albeit within the strict confines of his cultural and political standpoint, Mijatovich describes the incidents and consequences of the era-changing events of 1453 in regards to the conquest of Constantinople, the capital of Christian civilization.