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 Osmanlının
maskaraları...
jesters clowns of Ottoman Jesters
were the dancers in funny clothes and they were trying
to imitate the other dancers. Those jesters were
afraid of gözbağcılar and they hid from them, trying
to find out the trick of the game, showing that they
couldn't dance like the others. |
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short, they tried to do anything to make laugh the audiences.
In the miniatures, beside them there are tambourine players.
It is also possible to see those ones beside the animal charmers.
One of the most important speciality of the acrobats were the
chats with their stooges. They called
in various names: Mudhik, pusatçı, nekre, binevâ, maskara,
curcunabaz, cin askeri, tulumcu vb. |
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Beberuhi of Karagöz was a kind of jester with his extreme cone.
In the pictures of 18th century, the colorful clothes of the
jesters resembles the clothes of Arlecchino. Jesters had satired
as well. In 1582, at the circumcision
of III. Mehmet, Ottoman had started a war with Persians. |
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the ambassodor of Persia had been insulted. In the miniatures
it is possible to see how the jesters teased with the Safevi
quilted turban. |
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They were playing
with it like a ball and trying to balance it on their buttocks.
In these festivals there were also jesters with masks. In
the Ottoman period, jesters were important for the sultans.
They had entertained the sultan.
They had entertained the sultan. Jesters exhibit shows at the parades
of the artisans and lead the wedding corteges. In the picture of
Melling, there is a jester in a festival which was aranged by Kanuni
Sultan Süleyman. It is another signal of the jesters that they had
lead the cortege of the sultan. |
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