Dramatic Literature

Theorizing about literature over the centuries has been a significant intellectual exercise of high degree that has, among other things, majorly kept the study of literature afloat. The thrust of theory, on this note, is to give perspectives to literature; that is, a conceptual framework for its critical investigation. Against this background, this study has also attempted to conceptualize a relatively novel critical framework in dramatic studies which has been referred to as ‘existential-tragedy’. The concept is woven around the philosophical nexus of Absurdism and Tragedy with the theoretical assumption drawn from the Nietzschean principle of ‘Primal Unity’ in Birth of Tragedy. It encapsulates man as a being in existence who is caught up in an enclosed journey between creation and annihilation, and who constantly demonstrates an unconscious awareness to this underlying reality through his series of engagements in life. This unconscious phenomenon is contextualized in this study as ‘death anxiety’ which silently characterizes man’s struggles with life, as actors on the stage. Ultimately, the study is being established as a move towards theorizing a new conceptual framework and/or critical context, not only in the analysis of tragic and absurd plays, but also in literary criticism at large.

This study deals with the analysis of the plays by ChistaYasrebi and NaghmehSamini and is trying to study the role of feminine language in the plays of these two contemporary Iranian woman playwrights. In this study, first issues of women, language, feminine language and brief introduction to the life of ChistaYasrebi and NaghmehSamini have been investigated and then the feminine language in the works of these two female playwrights has been studied, to specify the role of the female narrator in narrative and feminine writing. The result of the study is that the structure of the playsofthese two playwrightsis very influenced by the gender of the narrator in terms of Personality Science, dramatic situation, and dramatic language, and feminine language is a key element of writing.