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Selimus Robert Greene

Selimus By Robert Greene

Selimus by Robert Greene


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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.

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Selimus by Robert Greene

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

    Additional information

    NGR9781554815081
    9781554815081
    1554815088
    Selimus by Robert Greene
    New
    Paperback
    Broadview Press Ltd
    2022-06-07
    246
    N/A
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