The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam (55 page)

26
. Ibid., 1.1.19–27.

27
. Ibid., 5.2.85.

28
. Ibid., 2.4.94–97.

29
.
Henry IV, Part 2,
2.4.136, 141, 155.

30
. Ibid., 5.2.44–49.

31
. William Hazlitt,
Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays
(London, 1817), p. 192.

32
. Norman Rabkin, “Rabbits, Ducks and
Henry V,
”
Shakespeare Quarterly
28, no. 3 (1977), pp. 279–96.

33
.
Henry V,
3.4.38–41.

34
. Nabil Matar and Gerald MacLean,
Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 28; Jonathan Burton,
Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579–1624
(Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005), p. 163; Deanne Williams,
The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 51–52.

35
.
Henry V,
3.1.34.

36
. John Calvin,
Institutes of the Christian Religion,
ed. John Allen, 2 vols. (London: Thomas Regg, 1844), vol. 2, pp. 94–95.

37
. John Foxe,
The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online;
available at www.johnfoxe.org, 1570 ed., Book 6, p. 893.

38
. Ronald Lightbown,
Carlo Crivelli
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 117.

39
. Edward Seymour Forster, ed.,
The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
(1927; repr., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), pp. 54–55.

40
. Ibid., pp. 56, 131.

41
. Richard Johnson,
The Most Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom
(London, 1596), pp. 16, 21.

42
. Ibid., p. 23.

43
. Ibid., p. 101.

44
.
Henry V,
5.2.193–96.

45
. Ibid., Epilog, 9-13.

46
. Foster,
Travels of John Sanderson,
p. 242.

47
. Hakluyt, vol. 1, p. 43.

48
. CSPD, vol. 6,
1598–1601,
January 31, 1599, p. 156.

49
. CSPV, vol. 9,
1592–1603,
no. 814, p. 375.

50
. Ibid., October 2, 1599, no. 817, p. 377.

51
. Thomas Dallam, “The Diary of Master Thomas Dallam, 1599–1600,” in
Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant,
ed. J. Theodore Bent (London: Hakluyt Society, 1893), pp. 1–99; at pp. 67–68.

52
. Ibid., pp. 74–75.

53
. Ibid., p. 84.

54
. Quoted in Leslie P. Peirce,
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 228. This amends the version translated in Susan Skilliter, “Three Letters from the Ottoman ‘Sultana’ Safiye to Queen Elizabeth I,” in
Documents from Islamic Chanceries,
ed. S. M. Stern (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965), pp. 119–57; at p. 139.

55
. Skilliter, “Three Letters,” p. 139, n57.

56
. Ibid., p. 143.

57
. Alison Games,
The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 171.

58
. Quoted in Skilliter, “Three Letters,” p. 153.

59
. “Dallam, Thomas (bap. 1575, d. in or after 1630),” ODNB.

Chapter 10: Sherley Fever

1
.
Twelfth Night,
1.2.52.

2
. Ibid., 5.1.365.

3
. Ibid., 3.2.67–68.

4
. Patricia Parker, “
Twelfth Night:
Editing Puzzles and Eunuchs of All Kinds,” in
Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays,
ed. James Schiffer (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 45–64; at p. 47. On Wright’s map, see Helen Wallis, “Edward Wright and the 1599 World Map,” in
The Hakluyt Handbook,
ed. D. B. Quinn, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1974), vol. 1, pp. 69–73.

5
.
Twelfth Night,
2.5.156–57.

6
. Ibid., 3.4.243–48.

7
. See Richard Wilson, “‘When Golden Time Convents’:
Twelfth Night
and Shakespeare’s Eastern Promise,”
Shakespeare
6, no. 2 (2010), pp. 209–26.

8
. Samuel Purchas,
Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes,
20 vols. (Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1905), vol. 1, p. 374.

9
. Quoted in R. M. Savory, “The Sherley Myth,”
Iran
5 (1967), pp. 73–81.

10
.
Gentleman’s Magazine,
n.s., vol. 22 (1844), p. 474.

11
. See Sir Edward Denison Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure
(London: Routledge, 1933); Boies Penrose,
The Sherleian Odyssey: Being a Record of the Travels and Adventures of Three Famous Brothers During the Reigns of Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I
(London: Simpkin Marshall, 1938); D. W. Davies,
Elizabethans Errant: The Strange Fortunes of Sir Thomas Sherley and His Three Sons, as Well in the Dutch Wars as in Muscovy, Morocco, Persia, Spain, and the Indies
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1967); Kurosh Meshkat, “Sir Anthony Sherley’s Journey to Persia, 1598–1599,” PhD thesis, Queen Mary University of London, 2013.

12
. Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
pp. 86–87.

13
. Penrose,
Sherleian Odyssey,
p. 245.

14
. CP, Part 4, May 2, 1594, p. 522.

15
. CP, Part 8, December 30, 1597, p. 526.

16
. CP, Part 8, March 1598, pp. 116–17. See Sanjay Subrahmanyam,
Three Ways to Be an Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World
(Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2011), pp. 91–92. A different translation appears in Davies,
Elizabethans Errant,
pp. 80–81.

17
. Subrahmanyam,
Three Ways,
pp. 93–95; Davies,
Elizabethans Errant,
pp. 81–83.

18
. George Mainwaring, “A True Discourse of Sir Anthony Sherley’s Travel into Persia,” in
The Three Brothers; or, The Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert and Sir Thomas Sherley, in Persia, Russia, Turkey, and Spain
(London: Hurst, Robinson, 1825), pp. 23–96; at p. 26.

19
. CSPD, vol. 7,
1601–1603,
June 27, 1602, p. 209.

20
. CSPD, vol. 6,
1598–1601,
no. 6, p. 130.

21
. Mainwaring, “A True Discourse,” pp. 34–35.

22
. Ibid., p. 55.

23
. William Parry,
A New and Large Discourse of the Travels of Sir Anthony Sherley Knight, by Sea and over Land to the Persian Empire
(London: Felix Norton, 1601), pp. 15, 18.

24
. On Shah Abbas and Isfahan, see Roger M. Savory,
Iran Under the Safavids
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 76–103, 154–76.

25
. Mainwaring, “A True Discourse,” p. 60.

26
. Ibid., pp. 60–61.

27
. Quoted in Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
p. 121.

28
. Quoted in ibid., p. 154.

29
. Quoted in ibid., p. 158.

30
. Mainwaring, “A True Discourse,” p. 68.

31
. Sir Anthony Sherley,
Sir Anthony Sherley his Relation of his Travels into Persia
(London: Nathaniel Butter, 1613), p. 64.

32
.
A True Report of Sir Anthony Sherley’s Journey
(London, 1600), sig. A4r.

33
. Mainwaring, “A True Discourse,” p. 69.

34
. Parry,
A New and Large Discourse,
p. 21.

35
. Sherley,
His Relation,
p. 29.

36
. Parry,
A New and Large Discourse,
p. 23.

37
. Ibid., p. 24.

38
. Quoted in Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
pp. 159, 162, 163.

39
. Sherley,
His Relation,
p. 29.

40
. Ibid., p. 74.

41
. Ibid., pp. 79–82.

42
. Ibid., pp. 83–85, 96, 106.

43
. Ibid., pp. 113, 115–17.

44
. Mainwaring, “A True Discourse,” p. 92.

45
.
A True Report,
sig. B1.

46
. “Two Letters from Anthony Sherley from Russia,” in Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
p. 239.

47
. Quoted in ibid., p. 167.

48
. Parry,
A New and Large Discourse,
pp. 33–34.

49
. Ibid., p. 35.

50
. CP, Part 10, July 8, 1600, p. 227.

51
. Quoted in Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
pp. 244–46.

52
. Quoted in ibid., p. 37.

53
. CSPV, vol. 9,
1592–1603,
no. 925, p. 431.

54
. Quoted in Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
p. 41.

55
. CSPV, vol. 9,
1592–1603,
no. 943, p. 438.

56
. Ibid., no. 940, p. 437.

57
. Quoted in Davies,
Elizabethans Errant,
p. 132.

58
. Quoted in ibid., p. 133.

59
. Quoted in Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
p. 47.

60
. Quoted in Penrose,
Sherleian Odyssey,
pp. 107–8; Davies,
Elizabethans Errant,
pp. 134–35.

61
. “Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex (1565–1601),” ODNB.

62
. Quoted in Ross,
Sir Anthony Sherley,
pp. 49–50.

63
. Quoted in Evelyn Philip Shirley,
The Sherley Brothers: An Historical Memoir of the Lives of Sir Thomas Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley and Sir Robert Sherley, Knights
(London, 1848), p. 33.