The similarity and difference in the play of the historical novel, Egypt, as an example

Prof. Abdul Sattar Abdul Thabet Al-Baidhani

The researcher  Tealb Hashem bedn

University of Basra – College of Fine Arts – Department of Performing Arts

   Abstract:

Quite a few dramatic writers have always benefited and been influenced by narrative literature and returned to history and historical narratives in writing historical plays using techniques (fiction, shorthand, condensation, and intertextuality), in addition to excitement, suspense, and the element of surprise in the play to be addressed and presented to the recipient. The promise of dialogue and storytelling is one of the main elements in the formation of the dramatic work, which made the dramatic writer rewrite, merging and interconnecting historical incidents within the dramatic text. Given the importance of the topic of historical narratives and the similarity and difference between narrative and theatrical literature and its interconnectedness within the title of the tagged research (similarity and difference in the play of the historical novel / Egypt as a model) which includes the problem and objectives of the research and its limitations … Through it, the similarities and differences in the historical novel are revealed when it is converted into an acceptable and palatable historical play by the recipient. While the second chapter was a study of the origins and development of the historical play, in order to compare and identify the differences and similarities between the two literature, and the researcher took the elements of the historical play literature; He set out a comparison between the historical novel and the historical play in order to arrive at a process of direct influence and interdependence between the two literature, and whether it is possible to influence the production of a text on another literature; The researcher concluded the second chapter of the need behind the play of the historical novel and the steps in converting the historical novel into a play; By setting a table in order to achieve this purpose, the researcher singled out two studies for them because of their importance in the literature, and the researcher came out with a set of indicators that he adopted in analyzing the sample and knowing the most important points of difference and similarity through them; And then the third chapter came the research procedures, and the researcher reached a set of results and conclusions and the most important sources that benefit the research.

Key words: Similarity, difference, historical narration, Egypt).

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