A Comparison of the Sequence of Events, Narration and Characters in the Story of “Rostam & Esfandiar” with the Play “Macbeth”
Subject Areas : شعرLeila Hashemian 1 , Noushin Bahramipour 2
1 - Faculty Member, Avicenna University, Hamadan
2 - Graduated in Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University
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.