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Between theatrical politics and political theater: Late Ottoman theatrical spheres

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in History.
dc.contributor.advisor Öztürkmen, Arzu,
dc.contributor.author Süloş, Melis.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:42:17Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:42:17Z
dc.date.issued 2010.
dc.identifier.other HIST 2010 S85
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/17800
dc.description.abstract This thesis intends to perceive theater as one of the best stages representing the political tensions, and the intellectual movements of its epoch. In rethinking theater and politics in the late Ottoman Empire, I focused on two fields: Theatricality of the political sphere and the political theater. In the light of the memoirs, newspapers, travel accounts and the play scripts, this thesis scrutinizes the discovery and the manipulation of the popular theater as a political institution. By focusing on the politicization of the theater, which developed within the palatial circles, and the politicization of the repertoire after the Revolution of 1908 in the popular realm, this study examines the instrumentalization of the theater for different political agendas. The first part of the thesis examines the recent historiographical currents that brought history, anthropology and literature closer. The subsequent chapter is a brief discussion of the Ottoman theater historiography. The third part situates theater within the Ottoman 'Westernization' experience. The following chapter scrutinizes the politicization of the theater by the Young Ottomans through the Vatan and Gedikpaşa Incidents. The fifth part discusses the transformation of the theater performances into 'public catharses' with the proclamation of the Second Constitution. And the last chapter scrutinizes the politicization of the repertoire with the newly emerged genre of milli facia, putting the old regime on trial.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Theater -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century.
dc.subject.lcsh Theater -- Political aspects -- Turkey.
dc.title Between theatrical politics and political theater: Late Ottoman theatrical spheres
dc.format.pages vii, 253 leaves;


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