9 books
Metin And was a cultural historian and writer whose research connected Turkish theatre, shadow play, Ottoman festivities, visual arts, and urban life. Drama at the Crossroads: Turkish Performing Arts Link Past and Present, East and West gives the broadest entry to his method, placing performance between inherited forms and modern stages. Karagöz – Turkish Shadow Theatre narrows the focus to a central popular tradition and explains why figure, voice, and comic exchange matter together. Forty Days and Forty Nights – Weddings, Festivals and Pageantry in the Ottoman Empire treats ceremony as a public performance through which hierarchy, craft, and collective entertainment become visible. Istanbul in the 16th Century: The City, the Palace, Daily Life widens the view from spectacle to the spaces that sustained it.

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