Sultan mehmed v biography of william shakespeare
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On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Usakligil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, –
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The renowned Turkish author’s memoir of serving Sultan Mehmed V provides a rare look inre the palace politics of the late Ottoman Empire.
Before he became one of Turkey’s most famous novelists, Halid Ziya Usakligil served as First Secretary to Sultan Mehmed V. His memoir of that time, between and , provides first-hand insight into the personalities, intrigues, and inner workings of the Ottoman palace in its sista decades.
In post-Revolution Turkey, the palace no longer exercised political power. Instead, it negotiated the minefields between political factions, sought ways to unite the empire in the face of nationalist aspirations, and faced the opening salvos of the wars that would eventually overwhelm the country.
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1Early modern debates represent some awareness, common in most European courts, that by the Anglo-Ottoman relationship was at its peak, abundantly reflected in English dramatic and non-dramatic texts of that period. However, both this association and the complicated way in which it was manifested in English culture, was soon to come to an end with English mercantile interests beginning to shift further east altogether with the imminent succession in of a king whose policies were far more internationalist in scope.1
2Against a shifting international background of contradictory political and ideological machinations where the English in particular were at once involved with and opposed to renewed Ottoman campaigns in Eastern Europe, the diversity embodied in these texts offers a significant portrait of a militant and polarized culture in which the Ottoman, the 'Turke,' had become a multiple medium through which a variety of cultural anxieties and beliefs could be addres
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“This is the English, not the Turkish court”: Ottomans in Shakespeare’s Henriad
In Shakespeare’s Henriad – Richard II (), Henry IV Part I (), Henry IV Part II (), and Henry V () – English Christian characters frequently employ negative Turkish tropes when criticizing each other’s corrupt political agendas. However, these tropes differ from the more positive characterizations of the Ottomans found in English chronicles of Turkish history. By engaging with the intersections between crusading and anti-crusading discourses and Orientalism, we can see how the Shakespearean character of Henry Bolingbroke seeks to elevate himself and his political agenda by casting the Turks as a negative contrast.
A number of derogatory representations of the Turk exist within English travel narratives, which center on Turkish male sexuality through the Orientalist discourse. But these portrayals are somehow counterbalanced by several contemporaneous English publications on Turkish history, wh