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A VERSE DRAMA ABOUT ABDÜLHAMİD II: LİBERTE
Abdülhamid II, having an important place in 19th century's Turkey, is a considerable historical person who alsa played an exceptional role in Turkish Literature. Abdülhak Hamid, a poet and playwright, who never remained indifferent to social and political events of his time, put Abdülhamid II, the most important ruler of tlıe Turkish historical period, in the centre of his verse drama Liberte. In this play, not published far along time because of censorship, Hamid processes, using the allegory method, both Abdülhamid's personality and his administration, and some statesmen and some ideas far the sake of which were struggled in that time. Hamid, who partly used simple Turkish vocabulary in this play, exhibits a remarkable panorama of Sultan Hamid's Turkey.
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Abdülhak Hamid, verse drama, Liberte, II. Abdülhamid.