Abstract:

A work of literature based on any historical period is a way of re-interpreting and re-establishing that era by depending upon the information about the case with that era’s paradigm, ideology and point of view. At this point, the subject of Kösem Sultan which has been used many times at various works of literature, falls into the class of historical literature. Among these works, the best and the eldest example of is the historical play named Kösem Sultan, which was written by Şahabeddin Süleyman and Tahsin Nahid together. This play, which was written during the period of Second Constitution, is a successful historical work that meets the expectations of that period with its fiction; because the oppression, corruption and denouncements imposed during the reign of Abdülhamid the Second, forms the subjects of majority of the plays written in the period of Second Constitution. Therefore the historical plays of that period has become a rostrum which cannot reach the individuals with the expected lyrism of a literary work. Since the effects of those historical plays were very short on the audience and the readers, only the Kösem Sultan and the Selim the Third have been accepted as successful works that meet the expectations and therefore have had their effects on the subject audience for a long time.

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