almalek, A. (2024). The popular depth in the theater of Youssef Idris: An analytical study of “the King of cotton” play.. Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 74(116), 1-22. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.354386
Adel almalek. "The popular depth in the theater of Youssef Idris: An analytical study of “the King of cotton” play.". Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 74, 116, 2024, 1-22. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.354386
almalek, A. (2024). 'The popular depth in the theater of Youssef Idris: An analytical study of “the King of cotton” play.', Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 74(116), pp. 1-22. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.354386
almalek, A. The popular depth in the theater of Youssef Idris: An analytical study of “the King of cotton” play.. Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 2024; 74(116): 1-22. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.354386
The popular depth in the theater of Youssef Idris: An analytical study of “the King of cotton” play.
Youssef Idris wrote the play “King of Cotton”, deriving its theme from the reality of the village society and the Egyptian countryside. He proceeded in his main idea to highlight the issues and concerns of the simple worker farmer in addition to the injustice and abuse he suffers from by the feudal lord of capital (his boss).
The writer was interested in portraying more accurately: realistic details, social problems, explaining the suffering of the rural people, and highlighting the personality of the farmer who plows the land, and the exploitation, oppression and tyranny he suffers every year from the landowner. Specifically that the landowner underestimates his right and unjustly reduces his wages, specifically at the time of the cotton harvest.
The writer sought and aimed to show the most important reasons and motives, which established the form of conflict and the existing dispute between them. That was done in terms of class, social and material inequality, and to show the popular depth and the nature of features of people in the countryside.
After the struggle has reached its climax, in the “King of Cotton”, the end is in favour of the landlord against the farmer.