'' Theatre in Iran'' (1965) is
Bahram Beyzai
Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, fa, بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studie ...
's seminal research on theater in the Persian world from the ancient times to the twentieth century. It has been described as "the definitive work on the history of
Persian theatre
Persian theater ( fa, تئاتر ایرانی) goes back to antiquity. The first initiation of theater and phenomena of acting can be traced in ceremonial theaters to glorify national heroes and legends and to humiliate the enemy, as in the classi ...
."
The text
The chapters of the book were published as articles in advance, i.e. 1962 and 1963. In 1965 the writer published them as ''namayesh dar Iran'' (literally meaning "Spectacles in Iran") with the English title of ''A Study on Iranian Theatre'' on the back cover. The book became and stayed to be the major contribution in the field. Later, its publication was entrusted to Roshangaran Publishing, which came to be Beyzai's exclusive Persian publisher.
''A Study on Iranian Theatre'' (first publication) on the internet catalog of the National Library of Iran
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In other languages
* Beyzaì, Bahram. ''Storia del teatro in Iran''. tr. Mani Naimi. Seattle. 2020.
Notes
References
* Banham, Martin. ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995. ISBN 0 521 434378
Author's Page on openlibrary.org
External links
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Books about Iran
Persian-language books
Iranian books
Works by Bahram Beyzai