The Tragedies of Oflazoğlu in the Context of Re- Interpret of History in the Literary Art

Abstract

The tragedy of Oflazoglu generally has received it’s subjects from history. We see that it has been stuck to history in these theaters which wrote using historical events. Oflazoglu has led to re-interpret of the history using literary art, synthetizing aesthetic pleasure and historical information. We see that national values have been given in the fictive structure of literary art in the writer’s historical theaters. This event has given a different importance to tragedy of Oflazoglu. It’s possible to benefit from theatre of Oflazoglu for teaching our national values to new generations using literary art but not changing the historical events. In this study, it was investigated how Oflazoglu’s literary works in parallel with historical events comparing his tragedies to historical studies. In addition it was made comparison of the literary works and historical facts.