The Tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab in Comparison with Aristotle Tragedy

Dramatic literature beside the narrative literature and Epic literature are known as the main branches of literature which have been divided into two genres: comedy and tragedy. The tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab as symbol of epic Iranian stories owns Aristotelian theatric criterion. The mentioned tragedy is based on a theme which shows the will to find the father in a dramatic struggle. The present paper citing the Aristotelian theatric principles derived from Poetics studies and surveys dramatic factors in the tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab in order to clarify Aristotle’s viewpoint on dramatic literature. Thus the reader – of the paper – may obtain comprehensive understanding of this tragedy.