Ibrahim the Mad and Other Plays: Volume One: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama (Middle East Literature In Translation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815608977 ISBN 13: 9780815608974

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Turkish playwriting has been notable for its verve and versatility. This two-volume anthology is the first major collection of plays in English of modern Turkish drama, a selection dealing with ancient Anatolian mythology, Ottoman history, contemporary social issues and family dramas, ribald comedy from Turkey’s cities and rural areas. It also includes several plays set outside Turkey.

The two volumes together will feature seventeen plays by major playwrights published or produced from the late 1940s to the present day, with volume 1,“Ibrahim the Mad” and Other Plays, encompassing plays from the 1940s through the 1960s, and volume 2, "I, Anatolia" and Other Plays, including plays from the 1970s through the 1990s. They grant to English readers the pleasure of riveting drama in translations that are colloquial as well as faithful. For producers, directors, and actors they provide a wealth of fresh, new material, with characters ranging from Ottoman sultans to a Soviet cosmonaut, from the Byzantine Empress Theodora to a fisherman's wife, from residents of an Istanbul neighborhood to King Midas, from Montezuma to a Turkish cabinet minister.

About this title

About the Author:

Talat S. Halman is professor and chairman of the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara. Formerly he was on the faculties of Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University. He has written or edited more than seventy-five books, including Contemporary Turkish Literature, Modern Turkish Drama, and Süleyman the Magnificent Poet. He is also editor of the Journal of Turkish Literature (JTL).

Jayne L. Warner is director of research at the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in Greenwich, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0815608977
• ISBN 13: 9780815608974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 506
• Editor: Halman Sleeping In The Forest Talat S., Warner Jayne