A Comparative Study of the Elements of the Play in the Plays of Mahmoud Dolatabadi and Sadollah Venus Based on Aristotle (Case study: the play Tangna and the play Ba'i Al-Dabs Al-Faqir)

Since the structure of the play is based on the story, each play must have a certain structure so that there is no gap in the story. Therefore, plays, like stories, have special elements that are important to study and analyze in today's research. The present study uses a descriptive-analytical method to compare the elements of the play in the two plays "Tengna" by Mahmoud Dolatabadi, one of the great contemporary writers of Iran, and Bae ol-debs al-Faqir by Sadollah Venus, a contemporary Syrian playwright, based on Aristotle's view. Based on the findings of this study, both authors have written their plays based on a series of principles and elements. In the meantime, all the elements of Aristotle are present in the two plays, except rhythm and song, which have no special place in the play "Tengna", but there are differences in some other elements, when in the character element, all the characters of Dolatabadi's play , Are subsidiary While the play of Venus has a central character that all the sub-characters revolve around him and also the type of expression in the two works is different and that the theatrical scene of the play of Venus appears in several scenes while the whole play of Dolatabadi in the courtyard of an old house On display.