Dramatic Poetry in the Efforts of Arab Scholars: A Study in the Historicity of Literature

Abstract

    The efforts of Arab scholars have focused on a critical perspective on research into the relationship between Arabic literature and theatre. These efforts have attempted to address the main issues that have recently confronted Arabic theatre, whether related to the written text in poetry or prose, or related to theatrical representational effort, and to research the close relationship between them.. Since these efforts sought to look far into the past for the Arabs, and the absence of theatre in their literary arena, both in text and in representation, they had to investigate every detail that could shed light on the existence of a theatre among the Arabs that preceded modern theatre in terms of its structure and representation. Therefore, they focused on the translation efforts of the Abbasid era, where Greek sciences, knowledge and some of their literature were translated, but they lacked this aspect, i.e. theatre. This is why scholars have searched in the early eras of the Arabs in their pre-Islamic period, and also later in the Abbasid era, and they have stopped before and after this, when there was a theater in Egypt or in Babylon, and in all of this