Naqqali Trilogy: Azhdahak, Arash, Testament of Bondar Bidakhsh

Bahram Beyzaie is widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, and his Naqqali Trilogy is a pinnacle work of twentieth-century world drama. This volume has translated the trilogy into English for the first time, blending traditional Iranian storytelling with contemporary dramatic philosophy and technique. The trilogy celebrates a renaissance of Persian cultural tradition while reframing ancient tales into a modern psychodrama of outcasts and oppression.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 66 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2023
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie—playwright, director, screenwriter, and scholar—has made the greatest contribution to modern Persian drama of any individual artist, yet he remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. In this volume, Richard Saul Chason and Nikta Sabouri have translated for the first time into English Beyzaie's complete Naqqali Trilogy, one of the dramatists greatest masterpieces and a pinnacle work of twentieth-century world drama. Blending modes of traditional Iranian storytelling and mythological ritual with contemporary dramatic philosophy and technique, the Naqqali Trilogy is a cycle of three works of mythological revisionism. It celebrates a renaissance of Persian cultural tradition while reframing ancient tales into a modern psychodrama of outcasts and oppression in a land of tyranny and injustice. This volume also includes a detailed introduction that provides background information on Beyzaie, the mythological basis of the plays, the nature of the plays in performance, and on the plays distinctive employ of the Persian language and the replication of the dramatic prose poetry into an English equivalent.

Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie—playwright

playwright, director, screenwriter, and scholar—has made the greatest contribution to modern Persian drama of any individual artist, yet he remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world.

In this volume, Richard Saul Chason and Nikta Sabouri have translated for the first time into English Beyzaie's complete Naqqali Trilogy, one of the dramatists greatest masterpieces and a pinnacle work of twentieth-century world drama.

Blending modes of traditional Iranian storytelling and mythological ritual with contemporary dramatic philosophy and technique, the Naqqali Trilogy is a cycle of three works of mythological revisionism.

It celebrates a renaissance of Persian cultural tradition while reframing ancient tales into a modern psychodrama of outcasts and oppression in a land of tyranny and injustice.

This volume also includes a detailed introduction that provides background information on Beyzaie, the mythological basis of the plays, the nature of the plays in performance, and on the plays distinctive employ of the Persian language and the replication of the dramatic prose poetry into an English equivalent.

Weight: 124g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 7 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780674292390