Acknowledgements Chronology of Events Performance in the Ottoman World: An Introduction Introduction 1: Performance in the Ottoman World: Thoughts on Folklore and History Arzu Öztürkmen Introduction 2: Research on Ottoman Festivities and Performances Suraiya Faroqhi Part I: Celebration and Entertainment 1. Evaluating Three Imperial Festivals: 1524, 1530 and 1539 Zeynep Yelçe 2. From the Modena Archives: A Report on the 1582 Circumcision Festivities at the Ottoman Court Nevin and Raniero Özkan-Speelman 3. Entertaining the Sultan: Meclis , Festive Gatherings in the Ottoman Palace Zeynep Tarim Ertug 4. What about a Bit of Fun?: Wine, Crime and Entertainment in the Sixteenth-Century Western Anatolia Fikret Yilmaz 5. Asserting Military Power in a World Turned Upside Down: The Istanbul Festivals of 1582 and 1638 Fariba Zarinebaf 6. Festivals and Their Documentation: Surname s Covering the Festivities of 1675 and 1724 Efdal Sevinçli 7. When the Sultan Planned a Great Feast, Was Everyone in a Festive Mood? Or, Who Worked on the Preparation of Sultanic Festivals and Who Paid for Them? Suraiya Faroqhi 8.

Amusements in the Ottoman Palace of the Early Nineteenth Century: Revelations from a Newly Analyzed Ruzname Mehmet Ali Beyhan 9. Marking Urban Identity, Dividing Up Urban Time: Festivities among the Greeks of Istanbul in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Méropi Anastassiadou 10. A Modern Performance in Late Ottoman Times: Birthday Celebrations as Imperial Image-Making Fatmagül Demirel Part II: Ottoman Theatre and Theatricality 11: Language and Sexuality in Ottoman Shadow-Puppet Performances Daryo Mizrahi 12. Folktales Adapted to Karagöz Shadow Plays Köksal Seyhan 13. Men Acting as Women: The Zenne in Nineteenth-Century Popular Theatre Çigdem Kiliç 14. The Ottoman Stage: Politicization and Commercialization of Theatres, 1876-1922 Nalan Turna 15. Musicals in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Theatre: The Story of Leblebici Horhor Aga Nur Gürani Arslan 16. Musicological Debates between Greeks and Turks in the Late Ottoman Empire: Dialogue and the Creation of the 'Other' Merih Erol 17.

Multiple Ramifications: Azniv Hrachia's Autobiography as a Source for the History of the Theatre and the World Beyond Hasmik Khalapyan 18. Afife Jale on the Stage: Questioning Female Identity in Theatre; Late Ottoman and Early Republican Modernization Processes Fahriye Dinçer Part III: European Encounters 19. Summa Turcica: The Image of the Turk in Eighteenth-Century Viennese Opera Lale Babaoglu Balkis 20. Performance as Politics of Westernization in the Late Ottoman World Melis Sülos 21. A German Institution in the Late Ottoman Empire: Music, Theatre and Festivities at the Teutonia Club Seren Akyoldas 22. The Ottoman Theatre in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago Cafer Sarikaya Glossary of Turkish Terms Notes on Contributors Index.