Contents

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 theCourt of Charles II 71

Judy A.

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

Ozlem Ogüt Yazicioglu

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