The Ramesseum Dramatic Papyri as Evidence of Drama in Ancient Egypt

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Tourist Guidance .Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Minia University, Minya, Egypt

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The definition of drama at present time has settled as: a theatrical art performed on the stage, television, cinema, or radio, a term given to play and act in general, this paper aims to reconsider the doctrine of limiting the beginning of theater to the era of the Greeks only and highlighting the beginning of drama in ancient Egypt based on the investigation of the Ramesseum Papyrus, which published by Kurt Zeité at 1928 and was the first text described as a dramatic text in ancient Egypt through descriptive analysis methodology and illustrates their potential significance in the development of an ancient Egyptian dramatic tradition that pre-dates the advent of theater in ancient Greece. This paper discusses the doctrine of limiting the beginning of theater to the era of the Greeks only and highlighting the beginning of drama in ancient Egypt through analyze the dramatic Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, through descriptive analysis methodology

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Minia Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research MJTHR
Volume 14, Issue 1
December 2022
Pages 59-74

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