Approaching the Iraqi theatrical text in light of cultural materialism the text of the key [Al-Muftah] play as an example

Perhaps one of the most important starting points of cultural materialism is reading literary texts through their historical contexts in light of political, ideological and social data, and their relationship to the material reality that produced them. The research contained four chapters: The first chapter included the research problem that centered on the following question: What is the historical context behind the production of the text? The Iraqi playwright and the relationship of the text to the prevailing ideology. The importance of the research that shed light on the concept of cultural materialism and approaching the Iraqi theatrical text accordingly. The benefit stems from the fact that it benefits scholars and researchers in the field of theater and literary criticism in clarifying and clarifying the methodology of cultural materialism. Defining the goal, which focused on identifying the approach to the theatrical text in light of cultural materialism. I defined the temporal boundaries as 1967 AD, the spatial boundaries (Iraq), and the objective boundaries by studying the Iraqi theatrical text in light of cultural materialism, in addition to the procedural definitions of the terms mentioned in the title of the research. The second chapter contained two sections, in addition to mentioning the indicators that resulted from the theoretical framework. The first section studied the foundations of cultural materialism and its concepts. The second section dealt with the approach to the theatrical text in light of cultural materialism. As for the third chapter, it was devoted to research procedures, as I determined the research sample that I chose intentionally according to specific justifications, represented by the text of the play The Key by Youssef Al-Ani, in addition to specifying the research tool and methodology. The research concluded in the fourth chapter by listing the results of the sample analysis. This chapter also included conclusions, recommendations, and then proposals, followed by a list of sources and footnotes from which it benefited.