<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Acknowledgments Introduction </strong>History<strong> </strong>Research objectives<strong> </strong>The texts. The image of the Turk Approach and method Contemporaneity Commonplaces Structure Note on terminology, transcription and translation <strong>1<i>. The news of Osman’s fall</i></strong> Introduction The sources The commonplaces The The Enemy The Barbarian Divine intervention Disorder  Conclusion <strong>2.  <i>The poets </i></strong>Introduction Denis Coppée Abraham Kemp Ivan Tomko MrnavićIvan GundulićDede Ağa Conclusion <strong>3. <i>Osman in the Low Countries: history plays by Kemp</i></strong><strong><i> and Coppée</i></strong> Introduction The plays Coppée’s <em>Deplorable Assassination </em>Kemp’s <em>Tragedy</em> 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<strong>. 4.  <i>Better the devil you know? Gundulić</i></strong><strong><i> and Mrnavić</i></strong><strong><i> on the fall of Osman II</i></strong><strong> </strong>Introduction<strong> </strong>The texts<strong> </strong>Ivan Tomko Mrnavić’s <em>Osmanschica</em>. Ivan Gundulić’s <em>Osman</em> Close to the Turk A tyrant, or an incapable prince Mrnavić and Osman Gundulić and Osman A Battle of the opposites Conclusion <strong>5.  <i>Dede</i></strong><strong><i> Ağa</i></strong><strong><i> and the two sultans</i></strong> Introduction The padishah is dead… …long live the padishah! The old élite Conclusion <strong>Conclusion</strong><strong>Bibliography</strong><strong>Index.</strong></p>