Naqqali Trilogy by Bahram Beyzaie - ISBN: 9780674292390
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Persian Shakespeare’s lost masterpiece: Ancient myths reborn in modern drama.

Naqqali Trilogy

Azhdahak, Arash, Testament of Bondar Bidakhsh

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    66 pages

  • Release Date

    11 August 2023

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Summary

Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie—playwright, director, screenwriter, and scholar—has made the greatest contribution to modern Persian drama of any individual artist, yet he remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. In this volume, Richard Saul Chason and Nikta Sabouri have translated for the first time into English Beyzaie’s complete Naqqali Trilogy, one of the dramatist’s greatest masterpieces and a pinnacle work of twentieth-century world dr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780674292390
ISBN-10:0674292391
Author:Bahram Beyzaie, Richard Saul Chason, Nikta Sabouri
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Imprint:Harvard University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:66
Release Date:11 August 2023
Weight:136g
Dimensions:5mm x 152mm x 229mm
Series:Ilex Series
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About The Author

Bahram Beyzaie

Bahram Beyzaie is an Iranian filmmaker, theater director, playwright, educator, and scholar of the history of Iranian theater. Over the past fifty years, Beyzaie has written numerous papers and published more than seventy books, monographs, plays, and screenplays. Beyzaie is the Bita Daryabari Lecturer in Iranian Studies at Stanford University.

Richard Saul Chason is an actor-playwright, dramaturg, literary critic, and translator based in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of national awards in theater criticism and scholarship from the Kennedy Center and is a fellow of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

Nikta Sabouri is an Iranian freelance theater director and translator based in Boston. She earned her B.A. in theater-directing at Tehran University and her M.A. in theater theory and dramaturgy at the University of Ottawa. She is the cofounder of Distant Realms Theatre Company.

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