A Critical Vision on the Appearance of Historical Drama in Iran

The modern theater has planted its roots in the mid-nineteenth century in different ways, in particular translation, and the Iranian dramatists emotion of French plays, especially plays by Moliere. The theater initially was comedies, which was the neutralization of the gullible villagers and intimates of Iranian society. Then twist and raised plays that focused on live models of life and society. The Iranian theater characterized since its inception and historical tendency, has resorted Iranian playwright since they know the western theater from history and were inspired. Nostalgia to the past which is full of stories and exciting and funny anecdotes and heroic figures, to enlighten the people and awake them against the tyrants and foreign rulers were among common subjects, and also were written for the purpose of projections and re-evaluation of historical events from a contemporary perspective. This article explains the appearance of historical drama in Iran, and the reasons that led the playwrights to this literary genre, and to indicate the path of development through passing various stages, and also studies the historical dramas of that era with descriptive and analytical method