دراسات
Volume 15, Numéro 1, Pages 1163-1170
2026-06-09
Epic Structural Techniques In Salah Abdel Sabour's Plays: After The King Dies And The Princess Waits
Authors : Mehadden Leila .
Abstract
Abstract: Traditionally, playwrights in Poetic Theatre employed classical structural and thematic mechanisms that encouraged audience immersion through scenes culminating in predictable happy or tragic endings. However, poetic theatre evolved significantly under the influence of political, social, and cultural changes, necessitating the adoption of epic techniques that shifted it away from direct dramatization and poetic lyricism toward a theatrical space capable of entertaining, engaging, and intellectually stimulating the audience. This was achieved through the integration of narration, storytelling, heritage-based scenes, self-alienation, fragmentation of events, cinematic clips, songs, and other structural and artistic techniques. Such devices successfully disrupted the “dramatic illusion” and employed the Brechtian concept of estrangement to present events in a way that opens unexpected horizons for the viewer. These manifestations are examined in Salah Abdel Sabour’s plays After the King Dies and The Princess Waits. Keywords: Poetic Theatre; Epic Theatre; Chorus; Temporal and Spatial Distancing; Role Exchange.
Keywords
Keywords: Poetic Theatre; Epic Theatre; Chorus; Temporal and Spatial Distancing; Role Exchange.
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