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KARAĐOZ - TEATARSKI IZRAZ KROZ VIJEKOVE
KARAĐOZ - THEATRICAL EXPRESSION THROUGH THE AGES

Author(s): Almedina Čengić
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, The Ottoman Empire, Drama
Published by: Интернационални Универзитет у Новом Пазару
Keywords: Karađoz; Hadživata; legend; shadow theater; the Far and Middle East; Orienatal Theatere; the Ottoman Empire; artistic and cultural traditions; social and political satire; „Karađoz“ in the Balkans and

Summary/Abstract: Shadow theater as a form present even in ancient Greece, where he was transferred to Byzantium and the Turks have accepted the conquest of space, and distributed over a wide geographic area of their domination. This popular form of drama presentation reached its culmination, in its development, during the Ottoman Empire, but similar to the elaboration of thematic units is present in earlier writing texts, which bind even from the second century BCE, in what is today Syria. He performed during King Antiosa, who owned his own theater "of playing dolls."

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 13 (3)
  • Page Range: 83-99
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bosnian