The Effective Role of Audience in Guarding of Tazieh

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Tazieh is a traditional theater whose common theme is historical and religious events and  tragedy of Prophet Muhammad and his family, in particular the battle of Karbala. Ritual aspect of this theatrical tradition is in a way that traditional audiences have a particular relationship with it and this characteristic plays an important role in view devotees comprehension and conclusion and this will not form except from holy seeing and preceding comprehension from context of tradition
The purpose of this paper is to recognize the difference between audiences and mere viewers by hermeneutic phenomenological attitude and to clarify the role of audiences who participate in Tazieh, as guardsman of the artwork and finally the tetrahedron of audience, performer, guardsman, poet forms in this theater.

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