List of Illustrations

1 Svltan Soleiman Chan; engraving by Theodore de Bry from Jean-Jacques Boissard, Vitae et icones svltanorvm Tvrcicorvm (Frankfurt, 1596). Courtesy of Beinecke Rare

Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

2 Rossa Solymanni Vxor; engraving by Theodore de Bry from

Jean-Jacques Boissard, Vitae et icones svltanorvm Tvrcicorvm (Frankfurt, 1596). Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 30

3 Roxolana sive Rosa Solymanni Vxor; from Richard Knolles’s

The Generall Historie of the Turkes until this present Yeare 1603 (London, 1603); based on the engraving by Theodore de Bry. By permission of The British Library Board, RB.31.c.453. Image from Early English Books Online published with permission of ProQuest LLC. 31

4 Frontispiece of Prospero Bonarelli’s tragedy, Il Solimano (Florence, 1620); etching by Jacques Callot. Courtesy of the

Rosenwald Collection of The Library of Congress. 33

5 Mademoiselle Mars (1779-1847) in ‘Les Trois Sultanes’;

nineteenth-century French school. Bibliotheque de la Comedie Fran^aise, Paris, France. Courtesy of Bridgeman Art Library. 41

6 Roksolana; anonymous Ukrainian artist; oil on canvas;

late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. By permission of

National Museum of Ukrainian Art, Lviv. 50

7 Roxolana is Coming Back Home; bronze monument in

Roxolana’s birthplace Rohatyn, Ukraine; sculpture by Roman Romanovych, architectural design by O. Skop, 1999. Photo by

Galina Yermolenko, 2004. 53

8 Roksolana, Volodymyr Kostyrko, oil on canvas, 70 x 110 cm,

1995. Private collection, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Courtesy of Volodymyr Kostyrko. 54

viii Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture

9 Performance of Ozen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem

[Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ay^enil §amlxoglu. Perf. Rozet Hube§ and §ebnem Kostem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibe§. By permission of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 158

10 Performance of Ozen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem

[Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ay^enil §amlxoglu. Perf. Rozet Hube§ and §ebnem Kostem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibe§. By permission of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 159

11 Performance of Ozen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem [Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ay^enil §amlxoglu. Perf. Rozet Hube§ and §ebnem Kostem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibe§. By permission

of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 160

12 Performance of Ozen Yula’s play, Gayri Resmi Hurrem

[Unofficial Hurrem], by Istanbul City Municipality Theater, Jan. 2005. Dir. Ay^enil §amlxoglu. Perf. Rozet Hube§ and §ebnem Kostem. Photo by Ahmet Yirmibe§. By permission of Istanbul City Municipality Theater. 161