İbrahim the Mad and other plays
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İbrahim the Mad and other plays
(Middle East literature in translation / Michael Beard and Adnan Haydar, series editors, . An anthology of modern Turkish drama ; v. 1)
Syracuse University Press, 2008
1st ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- The neighborhood / Ahmet Kutsi Tecer ; translated by Nüvit Özdoğru
- A ball for the imaginative / Tunç Yalman
- Man of the hour / Haldun Taner ; translated by Clifford Endres and Selhan Savcıgil-Endres
- In ambush / Cahit Atay ; translated by Talat S. Halman
- Sea rose / Necati Cumali ; translated by Nilbahar Ekinci
- A shanty in Istanbul / Başar Sabuncu ; translated by Nermin Menemencioğlu
- The Mikado game / Melih Cevdet Anday ; translated by Nermin Menemencioğlu
- İbrahim the mad / A. Turan Oflazoğlu ; translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat
- Çiçu / Aziz Nesin ; translated by Allan R. Gall
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Description
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 - a selection dealing with ancient Anatolian mythology, Ottoman history, 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 published or produced from the late 1940s to the 1990s, 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.
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