Means of laughing in one-chapter plays, Ali Salem as a model

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Faculty of Specific Education, Tanta University

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The research aims to identify the methods of inducing laughter that the writer Ali Salem used in his one-act plays.

The research is based on the analytical descriptive method, as a method for analyzing the theatrical texts, the research sample.

The study reached a number of results, the most important of which are:
- "Ali Salem" put his one-act plays in a comic format, with the aim of exposing the defects of Egyptian society in a way that is acceptable to an audience so as not to be alienated from him.
- The purpose of laughter in the one-act plays of "Ali Salem" was to make the audience happy and cheerful, while presenting a topic that touches the real, social or political life of the general public, directly or indirectly.
- "Ali Salem" used titles with laughing connotations depending on the means of laughter such as contradictions or the mechanism of the unfamiliar as in the two play "Bir al-Qamh, A Song on the Path" and Irony as in the plays of "The writer and Shahat, The writer in the honeymoon, The observer and the engineer "
- "Ali Salem" used the colloquial language in his theatrical works in order to contribute to the delivery of the message to the recipient easily and easily, as it helps to create a state of familiarity between the work and the recipient.

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