İbrahim the Mad and other plays : an anthology of modern Turkish drama / edited by Talat S. Halman and Jayne L. Warner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halman, Talât Sait.

Warner, Jayne L.

Series:

Middle East literature in translation

Language:

English

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Turkish drama--20th century--Translations into English.

Turkish drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 479 pages ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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 modern Turkish plays in English translation-a selection encompassing everything from ancient Anatolian mythology and Ottoman history to contemporary social issues, family dramas, and 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-volume one, "Ibrahim the Mad" and Other Plays, includes plays published or produced from the 1940s through the 1960s, and volume two, "I, Anatolia" and Other Plays, includes 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.

Contents:

Preface

Guide to Turkish spelling, pronunciation, and monetary terms

Introduction : an overview of Turkish drama (until 1970) / Talat S. Halman

The neighborhood / Ahmet Kutsi Tecer

A ball for the imaginative / Tunç Yalman

Man of the hour / Haldun Taner

In ambush / Cahit Atay

Sea rose / Necati Cumali

A shanty in Istanbul / Başar Sabuncu

The Mikado game / Melih Cevdet Anday

İbrahim the mad / A. Turan Oflazoğlu

Çiçu / Aziz Nesin

Biographical notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780815608974

0815608977

OCLC:

212410148