Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Robert Greene: A Brief Chronology of his Life and Times
A Note on the TextThe 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
