Employing historical events in television drama

Abstract

Drama is from the ancient human arts, it appeared with the presence of the old man, as it was the means that he used to simulate the surrounding reality and even his Aristotle imagination to embody it in the form of rituals and dances expressed in a symbolic way.

Drama is closely related to humanity since ancient times, and it is considered one of the oldest performing arts known to man, as was the first to look at the drama in his book The Art of Poetry, as he defined it as the art of simulation, and it is the root of every art and includes all the arts including epic poetry, tragedy, comedy and music.

The drama was first associated with the theater, and its name was associated, and then it was able to benefit from the technological developments accompanying the world, so discovering the camera and the invention of cinema and television had an influential role in the historical development of the drama and its forms. As direct as the theatrical text in which the drama depended on dialogue and physical expression, but rather evolved into another form that fits with modern techniques of cinematography and television represented by the scenario in which the narration relies on (image and sound).

So the drama started in the cinema and television by transferring theatrical and fictional texts to a screen to feed its permanence, and it did not stop at that, but began to rewrite the events of the biographies of known figures throughout history and presented to the recipient. And she made her own genre known as historical drama.

Historical drama is a source of knowledge of the past and the events and knowledge and cultural values it entails for many recipients, despite its imagination, which may be somewhat far from the historical events that actually took place. And that is because the Malfives possesses a wide freedom for creativity in formulating dramas in all its forms and historical ones, and at the same time maintains the credibility of its events within its general framework, and that is based on documents and historical books authoring the film or series.

Through this research, we will try to get acquainted with TV drama and its role in embodying historical figures and transferring them to the recipient to enrich his culture.

The research is divided into three chapters, including:

First: Chapter One: The methodological framework, which addresses the research methodology, including the research problem, its objective, and its importance. It also defines the most important terms used in the research title, as well as the research samples and previous studies on the subject.

Second: Chapter Two: The theoretical framework, which consists of the following sections:

Section One (Drama and Narrative Diversity)

Section Two (History between Reality and Dramatic Formulation)

Section Three (The Concept of Historical Drama)Chapter Three: Analysis of the samples (referring to the historical series "The Conquest of Andalusia").

Chapter Four: Presents the results and conclusions, and finally, a list of footnotes and sources included in the research