The TheatrIcal PIoneers’ Problem of «TheatrIcal E xpressIon» In The East: Ott oman Turkey, The Levant At At And Iran

Expressing a new art or literary genre is a problematic and challenge faced by all those who perform that for the first time, since they should find methods and terminology to express that. This is what the pioneer play writers and dramatists faced in East when they tried to set up theater shows or write plays in the nineteenth century. People of those countries knew the art of theatre and brought it into their countries, and they had to find new words and terms that reflect this new art. Therefore, in order to recognize this problem and the ways to treat it, it was necessary to study in depth between the eastern countries; Turkey, the Levant and Iran, which were the pioneers of theatre launching in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian languages.