Extract · Avaye Tabeid 27
The Tragedy of a Monarchy · two fragments
English finding aid for two Persian play fragments.
Two published fragments put the King into exchanges with a Teacher and the Queen, bringing authority into both public argument and private discomfort.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Avaye Tabeid 27
- Source date
- Summer 1401 / 2022
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English publication guide
English editorial orientation to the named source. The literary text remains with its original publication.
Reading orientation
The first fragment uses an exchange between the King and a Teacher to expose the vocabulary surrounding rule. Questions of legitimacy, religion and enemies are spoken by dramatised characters. The dialogue’s exaggerations are part of its theatrical argument, not authenticated quotations from historical figures. Source 2
The second fragment shifts into an intimate scene with the Queen. The King describes thoughts and bodily heaviness while stage directions place their conversation around the bed. Reading the fragments together lets political authority appear through both formal debate and the ruler’s physical unease. Source 2
Publication and language
Avaye Tabeid 27 labels the Persian contribution as two fragments from the play and names Rabihavi. The Summer 2022 publication does not constitute a complete script or establish a performance. It is a reading source for the fragments actually printed. Source 1
Sources & credits
- The Tragedy of a Monarchy · two fragments · publication
Avaye Tabeid 27. Summer 1401 / 2022. Persian. By Ghazi Rabihavi.
- The Tragedy of a Monarchy · two fragments · reading evidence
Two published fragments put the King into exchanges with a Teacher and the Queen, bringing authority into both public argument and private discomfort. The website paragraphs are editorial orientation to this source.