A Comparative Study of Dramatic Structure in " Bernarda Alba′ s House" and Two Iranian Plays " Death in Ordibehesht" and " Last Mermaid"

Spanish dramatist, Federico Garcia Lorca, is famous not only for his amorous plays but also for his impacts on later playwrights, in particular Iranian writers. Lorca initiated his works with writing poems; however, some years later he created his masterpiece “Bernarda Alba′ s House” using poetic prose. Accordingly, this research has concentrated on Lorca′s impact on Iranian dramatists and tries to answer the main question how Lorca′s drama affected Iranian dramatic literature while discussing the reasons of such effects.To obtain this goal, “Bernarda Alba′ s house” will be compared with two Iranian amorous plays: “Death in Ordibehesht” written by Mohammad Charmshir and “Last Mermaid” written by ChistaYasrebi. These plays are compared and analyzed with regard to dramatic structure.Accordingly, research findings, based on analytic-descriptive method and library sources, show that all mentioned cases in this research are rather similar in various aspects such as narrative model, plot, theme, character and setting structure which all represent the fact that the two mentioned Iranian plays were affected by Lorca′s play. All cases also depict an opposition between convention and freedom through some revolutionary circumstances; that is, if Lorca′s play is accepted by Iranian dramatists, it is largely due to the cultural and social resemblances existing between these plays.