Howard Brenton'ın Arabistan Ardından Lawrence Oyununa Althusserci Bir Yaklaşım.

English playwright Howard Brenton who mostly brings historical and political facts to his stage is one of the playwrights nurtured by British History after the World War II. In his plays, Brenton intends to reveal Britain's historical and political problems which are the causes of its unsuccessful domestic and foreign pol icy. "A tragicomedy of a hero" (Brenton, 2016b), Lawrence After Arabia, in which the playwright criticizes British policy is no exception. The elements which make the play more interesting are that the play takes place in the last period of the Ottoman Empire and has the traces of Turkish history, and its geographical scene is the land in the Middle East that the Ottoman Empire lost in the Great World War. Lawrence After Arabia was first staged at the Hampstead Theater on April 28, 2016. This date should not be disregarded as it is the centenary of the Arab revolt and the Sykes-Picot Treaty. The negative effects of the conflicts in the Middle East, the Arab spring riots and the events in Syria in the new century make the play even more interesting. It must be said that the playwright claims in the play that Britain should realize its former mistakes in order to resolve its current terrorism-related problems. However, this work handles Lawrence After Arabia from another perspective; it examines Lawrence, the protagonist of the play, through the concept of ideology. In this context, it notably benefits from the works of the French philosopher Louis Althusser; For Marx, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses and Ecrits Philosophiques Et Politiques, Tome 1. The confusion of the protagonist is examined in the light of Althusser's concept of ideology and by taking advantage of his views on art and literature. This work clarifies how Howard Brenton benefits from ideology as a raw theatral material while forming hi s protagonist and how Lawrence is negatively affected by the ideology that he was born into due to the political mistakes of Britain with the help of the Althusserian approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]