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Famagusta has witnessed the rise and fall of both empires and dynasties which have left in their wake a rich storytelling legacy. This was a city of extremes and so while there was political influence, artistic creativity, wealth and piety, there was simultaneously fear, corruption, treachery and war. After the great siege of 1571 Shakespeare strategically situated Othello in this 'seaport in Cyprus' while operas and ballets about the triumph and tragedy of Medieval, Renaissance and Ottoman Cyprus created a European fantasy of an imagined past. Centuries later, while exiles languished in the open prison of Famagusta and photographers revelled in a desolate yet romantic present, French and British scholars got to work re-creating sympathetic national histories and imperialists planned alternative futures. This book examines the complex cultural memory and historical imagination associated with the ever-enigmatic Famagusta.



