Ahmad Shawki's Prose Drama

Ahmad Shawki's Prose Drama

Adel Abu Amsheh

Received : 00-00-0000 , Accepted : 00-00-0000

Language: Arabic

Abstract

In this study, the researcher traced the beginnings of Arabic drama and literary drama. He also highlighted dramatists turn out to write history plays. Shawki was a good case in point. He made active use of sources in his composition of The Princess of Andalus, the only prose play composed. He mated between the historical events and the imaginative plot. failing to create eternal prototypes in the theatrical characters, and portray the internal conflict in the heroes themselves. Therefore, the images of these historical heroes have remained, in history books clearer, stronger and more effective. Moreover, Shawki did not commit himself to one of the article disciplines. He clearly sympathized with el-Mu'tamid Ibn Abbad, the hero, not because of his conviction of his just cause but because Abbad was a poet close to Shawki. The Egyptian poet, Shawki, found it an opportunity to identify himself with Abbad. The researcher concluded his study by investigating the reason for writing his play.

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