Dialogue as a performance language (Investigating the artistic and creative functions of dialogue in Bahram Beyzaei's plays)

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 ph.D student

2 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Kashan University

10.30465/copl.2024.47929.4114

Abstract

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Bahram Beyzaei is one of the playwrights who has depicted the contemporary world in the most beautiful way possible through the element of conversation and dialogue. Modernity, progress, technology, industry and finally the ridiculous world they have created for people in the society. Beyzaei has artistically put all the words and terms of conversation together in such a way that the tension and vulnerability of the characters in certain situations can be easily evaluated. A different technique that distinguishes Beyzaei from other playwrights is that he uses the characters of the play as the narrators of the work, and he does this with dialogue between the characters, autobiography, and dramatic monologues of the characters in the story. In this research, with the descriptive method and content analysis, the artistic functions of the dialogue element in Elliptical plays have been examined and analyzed. This author has given different functions to the dialogue element through character disclosure, symbolic typification and creation of new situations in his plays. The results of the research show that the creativity and innovation that Beyzaei has used in the narration of some of his plays is in the design of the plot and plot, which places the climax of the play at the beginning of the story. And it does this through dialogue and the words of the characters in the story. In other words, in order to avoid repetition in the narrative, Beyzaei resorted to the element of dialogue to depict many of the religious features and themes of the play in a different atmosphere.

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Contemporary Persian Literature
Volume 14, Issue 1
June 2024
Pages 209-242

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