Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture (англ.)

List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Note on Texts, Transliterations, and Spellings xv

Introduction 1
Galina Yermolenko

PART 1 CRITICAL ESSAYS

1 Roxolana in Europe 23
Galina Yermolenko

2 East versus West: Seraglio Queens, Politics, and Sexuality in Thomas Heywood’s "Fair Maid of the West", Parts I and II 57
Claire Jowitt

3 The Tragedy of Roxolana in the Court of Charles II 71
Judy A. Hayden

4 Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment Dramas 89
Beate Allert

5 How a Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine 109
Oleksander Halenko

6 Roxolana’s Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight 125
Maryna Romanets

7 Roxolana in Turkish Literature: Re-Writing the Ever Elusive Woman of Power and Desire 141
Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu

PART 2 TRANSLATIONS

8 Gonzalo de Illescas, "The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History" (1606) 167
Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto

9 Lope de Vega, "The Holy League" (1603) 173
Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto

10 Prospero della Rovere Bonarelli, "Soliman" (1620) 197
Foreword by Galina Yermolenko
Translation from Italian by Virginia Picchietti

11 Jean Desmares, "Roxelana" (1643) 219
Foreword by Galina Yermolenko
Translation from French by Andrzej Dziedzic

12 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, "Giangir, or the Rejected Throne" (1748) 239
Foreword and translation from German by Beate Allert

13 Denys Sichynsky, "Roksoliana; Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue" (1911) 243
Foreword and translation from Ukrainian by Galina Yermolenko

Appendix 1: Plot Summaries 255
Appendix 2: Names 271
Appendix 3: Chronology 275
Bibliography 277
Index 301