Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: POLITICS AND IDEOLOGYPolitics: Evolution in the Act of GovernanceIdeology and Political IdeologiesPolitical IdeologiesSocialism and CommunismRepublicanism, Laicism and NationalismKemalismCHAPTER 2: POLITICS IN DRAMAPolitics in British DramaPolitics in Turkish DramaCHAPTER 3: BERNARD SHAW AND ORHAN ASENAPolitical Evolution in Bernard ShawPolitical Evolution in Orhan AsenaCHAPTER 4: POLITICAL LANGUAGES OF SHAW AND ASENAPolitical Language of Bernard ShawPolitical Language of Orhan AsenaCHAPTER 5: SHAW VERSUS ASENAAPPENDIXSYNOPSIS OF ORHAN ASENA'S PLAYSBIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Author

Onder Cakirtas is assistant professor of English Language and Literature at Bingol Universitesi, Turkey, specialising in Modern British Drama, Modern Turkish Drama, Comparative Drama (British and Turkish), Political Drama.He is a member of the MLA (Modern Language Association) and the BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association) and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Language, Linguistics and Literature and the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (both at the American Institute of Science).In 2011 he received the research fellowship of the higher education of Turkey from the University of East Anglia, England.

Reviews

"Comparing Shaw with a Turkish playwright in the second half of the century not only gives the later dramatist a solid basis for discussion, it also demonstrates the continuing significance of Shaw's plays." - Christopher Innes, Distinguished Research Professor, York University; "It is quite a challenging task for an author to write about G.B. Shaw and Orhan Asena from such a fresh perspective. But Onder Cakirtas has succeeded with an arresting portrait of both playwrights" - Omer Sekerci, Associate Professor, Suleyman Demirel University