A Comparison of the Sequence of Events, Narration and Characters in the Story of “Rostam & Esfandiar” with the Play “Macbeth”

Subject Areas : شعر

Leila  Hashemian ¹ (Faculty Member, Avicenna University, Hamadan)
Noushin  Bahramipour ² (Graduated in Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University)

Received: 2012-09-19 Accepted : 2012-09-19 Published : 2009-12-01

Keywords: narration, characters, داستان رستم و اسفندیار, نمایشنامه‌ی مکبث, پادشاهی, روایت, شخصیتها, Rostam&Esfandiar, Macbeth, kingdom,

Abstract :

The story of “Rostam&Esfandiar” is one of the most beautiful and attractive stories of “Shahnameh” by Firdausi. “Macbeth” is also a famous play by Shakespeare. These two literary works share some certain similarities. The present article is an attempt to study these similarities in the stories of “Rostam&Esfandiar” by Firdausi and “Macbeth” by Shakespeare taking into consideration the sequence of events, narration and characters.