DISSIDENT READING OF THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM AND KURBAN IN TERMS OF CULTURAL MATERIALISM

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 7, 97 - 112, 15.08.2019

Ebru Uğurel Özdemir

Abstract

Theatre has always been considered one
of the mirrors that reflect the traditions and practices of societies. Through
the performances of the characters on stage, the real life of humans, the
ideological meanings, the power relations, and the resistance that individuals
within a society put up against the system are unfolded. Feminine and masculine
roles and rules coded for each sex are also transmitted through the attributed
acts of the characters. Accordingly, in this paper, the ideological stance of
women is discussed with regards to the expression of power both in Renaissance
drama and Turkish Republican drama. The challenging attitude that female
characters adopt against the masculine authority is examined through
incorporating dissidence in interpretation with the aim of social change in
many fields such as religion and femininity. 
To achieve this aim, the plays The
Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary and Kurban
by Güngör Dilmen are analyzed with reference to the principles of cultural
materialism as the textual analysis of the plays in question demonstrates
dissident reading in the form of negation of the dominant structures of each
society. 

Keywords

Gender Perception, The Tragedy of Mariam, Kurban, Cultural Materialism, Ideology

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