^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} System Crisis and Theater in the Ottoman Empire -

In this work, the term “artistic truth” is a starting point for studying the past through two works of literature; two theater plays written in late nineteenth century in order to get a multifaceted picture of the time. In this analytical reading, the Habermasian perspective of “system crisis” provides a useful basis from which to give meaning to world presented in these plays. The author analyzes Şemsettin Sami's Gave (1877) to put forth his political vision and advice to save the empire from a systemic crisis, and Hagop Baronian's The Honorable Beggars (1881) disclosing the playwright's view about the destructive effects of the Ottoman system crisis on the Armenian community living in Istanbul.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface / Acknowledgements
IntroductIon

Targets and Theoretical Premises
Pursuing a General System Crisis Theory
A General Theory of Crisis
Late Ottoman History and the Theory of Crisis
History and Theater
History and Literature
Theatre as Literature
Representation of the Late Ottoman System Crisis in Theatre Plays
Şemsettin Sami's Gave (1877)
Hagop Baronian's The Honorable Beggars (1881)

Theories of System Crisis
Theories of Endemic Economic Crisis of Capitalism Before and After Marx
Talcott Parsons' Systems Theory and the "Integration Crisis"
Jürgen Habermas and the Theory of "System Crisis"
Looking at the Late Ottoman History from a Habermasian Perspective of System Crisis
Modern Historiography of the Late Ottomans and the Concept of System Crisis
Identity and System Crisis in Late Ottoman Society
Westernization Processes; Integration into the Liberal Capitalist World-Economy, and Identity Crisis in Early Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society
Zürcher and Goergeon's Arguments about the Crisis of the Late Ottoman Empire
Reformulating Zürcher and Georgeon's Arguments from the Perspective of Habermasian System Crises Theory

Representing Crisis on the Stage
History through Literature
Rhetoric and History
Different Representations of the Past: Fiction and History
Proposal for an Analytical Methodology
Representation of the Past on the Theater Stage
Historical Dramas and Comedies on the Late Ottoman Stages
Theater Performances and Play-Writing Activities in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Two Plays on Ottoman System Crisis in the Late nineteenth Century
Şemsettin Sami's Gave: Representations and ResolutIons
Rhetorical Analysis
The Inner Temporality of the Story
The Inner Temporality of the Plot/Discourse
The Plot
The Discourse
Historical Analysis
The Outer Temporality of the Author
A Short Biography
Sami's Approach to the Ottoman System Crisis and His Advice for Its Resolution

Socialism as the Hope of Human Being
In the Subservience of Two Nations
The Outer Temporality of the Reader

Hagop BaronIan's Honorable Beggars: Destructive Effects of the CrIsIs on the Armenian Community
Rhetorical Analysis
The Inner Temporalities of the Story and the Plot/ Discourse
The Story and Plot
Historical Analysis
The Outer Temporality of Author
A Short Biography
Macro Cosmos: The Greater Picture of the Eastern Crisis (1872-1880)
Micro Cosmos: Perspectives from Tiyatro on the Footsteps of the Crisis(1874-1875)
The Outer Temporality of Reader
Good Times
Bad Times
The Time of the Crisis

Conclusion
Bibliography
INDEX