Excluded by Inclusion: The Turk in Shakespeare’s Plays
Öz
Reference to the Turk was a common practice in early
modern plays. There were, in fact, a large number of plays dealing with the
Turks by major playwrights of the period such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Greene,
Peele and Dekker. Apparently, the Turk was a safe subject to write about for
the book market as it guaranteed sales. Thus, in a way, they were included in
the lives of the theatre audience as well as the rest of the nation that knew
about the Turk through broadside ballads. However, this inclusion of the Turk
in the lives of the English nation did not necessarily mean that they were well
received. Most of the works dealing with Turks drew a negative picture of the
Turk as strong and menacing enemy whose religion was a threat to Christianity.
Although recent scholarship has shown multi-dimensional readings of
Shakespeare’s plays, his approach cannot be held separate from the common
notion of the Turk prevalent among the playwrights of the period as well as the
English nation as a whole. This paper aims to analyse the inclusion of Turkish
race as well as references to them in some of Shakespeare’s plays to understand
to what extent they are actually excluded from the English society as the
other.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Mustafa Şahiner
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Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
28 Eylül 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
25 Temmuz 2018
Kabul Tarihi
25 Temmuz 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Cilt: 39 Sayı: 39