Journal Article

التناول الدرامي لنوادر جحا بين الموروث الشعبي ومسرح الطفل

أحمد، أحمد نبيل

2015

Overview

Several writers of child's theatre seek to discusses and include the popular legacy in their dramatic works. Juha's quirks consider one of those valuable legacies that are tackled on child's theatre, including inherited characters, topics, and thoughts that arouse sense of humor and sarcastic social and political criticism that attracts children. Child's theatre writers' tackling with Juha's quirks, besides Juha legend character differs according to their dramatic treatment of the origins of the quirks in the popular legacy due to their creativities and targets they seek to achieve: The study seeks answering these main questions through the following: - How are Juha's quirks treated in drama of child's theatre? - What are similarities and dissimilarities between Juha's quirks in popular legacy and their representation dramatically in child's theatre? - What is the role of \"Juha\" legacy character exposing positive values and rejecting negative behaviors in child's theatre? This study belongs to the qualitative (descriptive) types of studies, as researcher uses the analytical, comparative, and comparative method; while the study analytical population are represented in texts and shows of child theatre that tackle with Juha's popular legacy quirks, and the study sample consists of six children plays. The study comes to several results which most important are: - Some dramatic writers of child's theatre are not tied to origin of the story of Juha in the popular legacy, but they have developed and rephrased some parts; while others' efforts are crystallized in presenting Juha's quirks as they are with no additions or paraphrasing. - Some child's theatre writers are inspired by more than one quirk to be included within the dramatic text, and they have succeeded to introduce a coherent artistic structure, while other writers have counted on tackling with one quirk inside the dramatic structure. - Elements of comedy and humor are connected in plays to the situations Juha are meeting, as exposed in Juha's quirks in popular legacy which result from misunderstanding, foolishness of others, sarcasm of Juha towards others' behaviors and deeds. - The character of Juha is exposed as a typical character in most plays, handled by some writers in a documentary form. They are satisfied with representing it as shown in Juha's legacy without any modification or change. - Child's theatre book exposes a set of values in terms of the dramatic action such as cooperation, friendship, courage, labor value, and bearing responsibility, They also discuss some political and social issues through Juha's character such as justice issue, and rejecting negative behaviors like intruding in neighbor's life and peeking at him.

• Publisher: جامعة عين شمس - كلية التربية النوعية
• Subject: التراث الشعبي / الحكايات الشعبية / كتاب مسرح الأطفال / نوادر جحا