Theatrical Text and the Aesthetics of Reception A Reading in Eizis Play by "Nawal Al-Saadawi"

Abstract

This research aims at presenting reading in “Eizis” play by Dr. Nawal El Saadawi from (aesthetic of reception) perspective or ‘Reception Theory’, particularly as regards theoretical and application efforts of the French researcher and theorist Patrice Pavis whereby it is supposed that explanatory reading of any text is determined by the text itself, and that it is impossible for the reader to create without respect of the text’s aims. that is to say that the reading method imposed by the text offers to reach it through interaction and reaction between the text and the reader, in addition to the aware check to the text on the basis of ideological direction intended by the implied author or the “ideal author”. The research necessitated, before the reading application, that it presents a theoretical framework through reviewing ‘Reception Theory’: definition, its roots in the old and modern criticism thought, literature sociology and explanatory and aesthetic theories, then review of the thoughts of the first pioneers and modern theorists like: Wolf Gang Izer, Hans Robert Jaus, Umberto Eco and Patrice Pavis.