The poetic play between history and literary imagination is the play "The last thing the pilgrims said as a model"

Abstract

     This research examines the relationship between history and literary imagination in the poetic drama, using the play "The Last Words of Al-Hajjaj" as a case study to explore the mechanisms by which historical events and figures are employed within the dramatic structure of the poem. The research stems from a central question: the extent to which the dramatic text adheres to historical accuracy, versus the artistic freedom afforded by literary imagination in reshaping events and characters.

    The research employs a critical analytical approach, supported by descriptive and historical methods, to analyze the various levels of the text, particularly dialogue, character development, and dramatic events. The study reveals that the poetic drama does not aim to reproduce history as a documentary narrative, but rather utilizes it as artistic material that is reshaped to serve the author's intellectual and aesthetic vision. The findings also demonstrate that the character of Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf is presented as a complex dramatic figure, intertwined with psychological and intellectual dimensions, transforming from a historical figure into a symbolic representation of issues of power, conflict, and human destiny. The research concluded that the relationship between history and imagination in the poetic drama is a dialectical and complementary one, in which the past is utilized to question the present, and that literary imagination contributes to deepening the symbolic meaning of the text and endowing it with a human dimension that transcends the boundaries of time and place.