The Traces of Modernization in the Ottoman Theatre

Generally, artists are the people who feel and perceive the basic needs of the society prelusively. They took the photograph of the society which they lived in and used this photography in their art. The main objective of this article is to look for, study, and analyze the answers to the following question: "How did theatre contribute to this new era which started in 1839 and led to change and modernization?" The literary theory that will be used for analyzing the theatre texts will be the social realism theory, which refers that “art is the reflection of the society”. The structure of the thesis generates from theory to practise. With this configuration, the scope will get narrower towards the end of the subjects. The first important concept of the thesis is the modernization and the modernization theories. And then, the common denominators of the modernization will be discussed. This will be one of the most important parts of the study because the concepts that are searched in the theatre texts between 1839-1908 in the last part of the article will be the reflections of this first part