Comedy

1947 — Very Good Turkish Paperback. Foolscap 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 78 p. Pages untrimmed and unopened. Casina is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Many of the characters in Casina are stock characters of Greek and Roman comedy, such as the old man chasing after the young slave woman. This is the first Turkish Edition of Casina by Plautus. It's translated by Nurullah Ataç, (1898-1957),(translated from French to Turkish), who was a Turkish writer, translator, poet and literary critic. He was born on 21 August 1898 in Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire. He studied in the Galatasaray High School and the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University. After his father's death in 1921, he began serving as a French teacher in various schools in Istanbul. After the proclamation of the Turkish Republic he also served in Ankara and Adana. In 1926 he married to Leman Ataç. He was appointed as an official translator of the presidency. He also served as the chairman of the media branch of the Turkish Language Association. Ataç is known as a productive writer with an excellent memory. He translated more than 70 books to Turkish. He wrote essays and poems using modern Turkish words. He was a champion of inverted sentences in his writings In his critics he was often relentless. OCLC has six copies: 32675443. First Turkish Edition.