274–89, 296
retirement of, 290
Richard III, 165, 208
and Sir Thomas More, 293–95
The Taming of the Shrew, 206
The Tempest, 295–97
Titus Andronicus, 187–93, 273, 277
Twelfth Night, 225–27, 256, 275
Shaykh, Mulay al-, 168
Sherley, Sir Anthony, 227–56
and Abbas, 10, 237–45, 246, 252, 292
and arts of war, 229
characteristics of, 230, 232, 244
crimes of, 229–30, 231–32, 255
death of, 293
erratic behavior of, 231, 245–47, 248–49, 253–56, 292–93
exile of, 231, 244, 249, 256, 291–93
honors to, 230–31
in Italy, 251–54
later years of, 292–93
marriage of, 231
memoirs of, 230, 233, 240, 293
in Moscow, 246–47
and Persian expedition, 233–45, 248
in Prague, 249–51, 292
self-promotion by, 229, 230–31, 239, 240, 247–49
and Shakespeare’s plays, 225, 227, 255–56
travels of, 230, 231, 232–33, 234–36, 245–46, 250–55
Sherley, Sir Robert (brother), 227–29, 234, 235, 245, 247, 255, 292–93
Sherley, Sir Thomas (brother), 230, 234–35, 255, 270, 291, 292
Sherley, Sir Thomas (father), 228, 229, 230, 231–32, 234
Shrewsbury, Francis Talbot, Earl of, 13
Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 179
Shylock (fict.), 196–200
Sidney, Sir Philip, Defense of Poesy, 205
Silk Road, 35
Sinan, Mimar, 85
Sinan Pasha, Koca, 102
Sinzendorf, Joachim von, 88–89
Sixtus V, Pope, 123, 148
Siyavuş Pasha, Kanijeli, 117
Socrates, 277
Solovetsky Monastery, 247
Soltana, Aura, 44, 54
Songhai, Muslim kingdom of, 171–72
Spain:
American colonies of, 28, 45, 126, 171–72, 263, 271, 291
and Barbary trade, 56, 57, 153
and Habsburg Empire, 72
and Holy League, 64, 70
and invasion of France, 181
Jewish conversos in, 58, 128
Jews expelled from, 127
and Low Countries, 34, 123
military alliances against, 6–7, 17, 114, 123–25, 129, 131, 143–45, 147, 148–50, 153–54, 168–72, 182, 193, 195, 259, 261–64, 265–66, 268–71
military intelligence about, 118–19
Muslims in, 25
Ottoman peace treaty with, 96–97
peace negotiations with, 288–89, 290–92
trade competitors with, 70, 82–83, 112–13, 115, 116, 121, 123, 233
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, 34
Treaty of London, 288–89
war with England, 193–95, 196
Spanish Armada (1588), 6, 123–25, 129, 137, 142–43, 145–46, 147–51, 153, 163, 181
Spanish Armada (1596), 195
Spanish Company, 84
Spanish Inquisition, 70
Staper, Richard, 74, 84, 97, 104, 113, 119
Stow, John, 265, 268–69
Stukeley, Sir Thomas, 75–76, 78, 165, 240
Sufism, 37, 39, 48, 213
dervishes, 86
Süleyman I (the Magnificent), Sultan, 49, 53, 85, 87, 163, 199
alliance with France, 9, 15, 25–26, 62
and Barbarossa, 17
campaign against Safavid Empire, 35–36, 39–40, 51, 52
death of, 62
successors to, 62–63
Surtees, Rev. Scott, 256
Swallow (ship), 46, 95, 139
Swan Theatre, 106
Symcot, John, 115–17, 119–20
Syria, trade with, 4
Tahmasp I, Shah, 39, 45, 47, 48–53, 68, 73, 237
Talib, ‘Ali ibn Abi, 36–37, 49, 240, 272
Talib, Husayn, 37
Tangarffe, Moor chief, 59
Tatar warlords, 42
Temryukovna, Maria, 46
theater, 105–10, 155–67, 172–77, 271–89, 293–98
Alphonsus, King of Aragon, 173
Battle of Alcazar, 163–65, 166, 189, 210–11
censorship of, 106
A Christian Turned Turk, 297
first playhouses (1576), 105
iambic pentameter in, 157–58
interest in Islamic world in, 6, 105, 106, 110, 162, 166, 272, 298
The Jew of Malta, 174–76, 178, 188, 190, 196, 200
liberties (open-air), 106
Lust’s Dominion; or The Lascivious Queen , also known as The Spanish Moor’s Tragedy, 272–74, 275
mystery-play cycles, 22, 212–13
pageantry, 28
Poulter’s measure used in, 157
The Renegado, 297
Sir Thomas More, 293–95
The Spanish Tragedy, 163
Tamburlaine, 6, 155–59, 160–63, 165, 172–74, 178, 210, 212, 281, 284, 288
Three Ladies of London, 106–10, 113, 114, 156, 157, 196, 200
Tragicall Reign of Selimus, 172–73, 188
Travailes of the Three English Brothers, 297–98
see also Shakespeare, William
Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), 291
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