Five Osmans •the Ottoman Crisis Of 1622in Early Seventeenth-century Literature

Acknowledgments Introduction History Research objectives The texts. The image of the Turk Approach and method Contemporaneity Commonplaces Structure Note on terminology, transcription and translation

1. 1. The news of Osman’s fall

   Introduction The sources The commonplaces The The Enemy The Barbarian Divine intervention Disorder Conclusion

2. 2. The poets

   Introduction Denis Coppée Abraham Kemp Ivan Tomko MrnavićIvan GundulićDede Ağa Conclusion

3. 3. Osman in the Low Countries: history plays by Kemp and Coppée

   Introduction The plays Coppée’s Deplorable Assassination Kemp’s Tragedy Far from the Turks Coppée and the Ottomans A poor little prince A contrast Kemp and the Ottomans Better loved than feared A future Conclusion

4. 4. Better the devil you know? Gundulić and Mrnavić on the fall of Osman II

   Introduction The texts Ivan Tomko Mrnavić’s Osmanschica. Ivan Gundulić’s Osman Close to the Turk A tyrant, or an incapable prince Mrnavić and Osman Gundulić and Osman A Battle of the opposites Conclusion

5. 5. Dede Ağa and the two sultans

   Introduction The padishah is dead… …long live the padishah! The old élite Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.