journal of kerbala university

Since woman has been one of the forces that shaped the features of the Twentieth Century , her literary production became of great significance . It is noted that woman has not been actively engaged with verse drama if we exclude three attempts by female poets who did not receive their due critical merit like Attiqa Al – Khazraji , Jaleela Ridha , and Wafaa Wajdi let alone that the interest in verse drama after it has settled during the 60s and the 70s of the preceding century , witnessed a recession during the following decades whether in terms of production or criticism versus the other dramatic arts like the novel and the short story . Therefore , the few texts in this domain constituted an important field of study because they reflect a concentrated aspect of one of the genres which shaped the human civilization since the times of the Greeks until the Renaissance.
This laconism of production urged the researcher to delve deep into whys and wherefores of the absence of woman writing within this genre . Woman has encountered many impediments when she wanted to embark on a literary writing mission and particularly the writing for the theater and more specifically verse drama .The paper tried to dig deep into how the image of woman was depicted through two dimensions ; the first is the feminist voices in the play " Baisan and the Seven Doors" by Wafaa Wajdi . The second is feminine representation of ( Baisan) and to be balanced with the patriarchal portrayal of (Ameera) in Salah Abdul – Sabour play (the Princess is waiting) . The paper concluded that the feminine experience conveys feminine experience conveys feminist features of writing distinguishing her from men