The Turkish history, from the original of that nation, to the growth of the Ottoman empire [electronic resource] : with the lives and conquests of their princes and emperours /

Volume 1 port signed: "P. Lelij Pinxit ; R. White, Sculpsit."Vol. 2 has title: "The Turkish history. The second volume, beginning from Mahomet III and continued to this present year 1687. The sixth edition." has separate dated title page and register.Irregular pagination.Wing (2nd ed., 1994),ESTCVol. 2 includes: "A continuation of this present history ... by Edward Grimston", "Continuation of the Turkish history ...collected out of the papers and dispatches of Sir Thomas Roe", "The history of the Turkish empire continued, by Sir Roger Manley", and "The present state of the Ottoman empire, by Paul Rycaut."Vol. 1 includes advertisements on p. [27].Includes indices.Imperfect: lacks pages 263-276 of v. 2 ; print show-through with slight loss of text.Reproduction of original in: York Minster. Library.Electronic reproduction

“What, in a Town of War … to Manage Private and Domestic Quarrel?”: Othello and the Tragedy of Cyprus

This essay reconsiders the significance of Cyprus as the location of Othello, arguing that awareness of the island’s capture by Ottoman forces in 1571 will have been central to the play’s early reception. This context broadens the significance of the tragedy beyond the original domestic focus of a plot borrowed by Shakespeare from an Italian novella by Cinthio–one that, significantly, plays out during a period of peace rather than war. Beginning with an analysis of the affective power of the alarm bells that ring out in the riot scene (2.3), it argues that through a combination of internal and external contextual signs, Shakespeare’s original Jacobean audiences will have become united in perspective with the people of Cyprus. The significance of the loss of Othello as the island’s most capable defender, combined with the inadequacy of Cassio as his replacement, is highlighted throughout the play. This enables the specific tragic potential of Cyprus as a location to be exploited by Shakespeare in a way that was simply unavailable to Cinthio, and that may not be automatically understood by later audiences