Historical Playwrights in Contemporary Egyptian and Iranian Literature 1906 to 1953

The oriental acquaintance with the fields including Egyptians and Persians of the last two centuries with the manifestations of the civilization and culture of the West are considered to be very significant. One of these literary types, which is the result of the familiarity of Eastern writers with European literature, is playwriting, including historical plays. By defining the theory of the feature and type of historical events in this type of plays, the contemporary writers of Iran and Egypt also tried to use the literary genre to describe the historical events and explain the history of their national and past characters in the form of historical plays. And this is what we intend to do in this article to determine the magnitude and extent of this influence in the contemporary historical plays of the writers of the two countries and to determine the development of this kind of literary works in their works. And then we will discuss and analyze this move in both countries, also, the introduction of the history and most important historical plays of the two countries and the most important writers of the two countries in this type of literary is another purpose of this paper.