THE BENEFITS OF USING WORKS ADAPTED FROM EPICS TO OPERAS FOR THE TEACHING OF EPICS

Özet

Epics as products of oral literature tradition have found their way into the forms of performance since the disappearance of the epic tradition, opera being one of such forms of performance. Difficulties are observed in the teaching of epics in high-schools because they express the life and times of an era distant from the students’ time period. In the teaching of epics, it is possible to make use of multi-dimensional contributions made by an inter-disciplinary learning environment and form an effective learning environment by means of the works adapted from epics to opera. The present paper aims to present the relationship between epics and opera, a short history of opera in Turkey, major works adapted from Turkish and world epics, the benefits of making use of the works adapted from epics to opera, the works of literature and opera with titles, and some ways of making use of them in the teaching of epics.