The Beauty of the Thai Verse Play Phra Srimueang

Abstract

            This research entitled as beauty of Phra-Sri-Mueang Drama was conducted on purposes of studying into the beauty of the royal literature of Krom-Phra-Ratchawang-Bavorn-Satharn-Phimook in both contents and format in order to appreciate and reveal the values of this royal literature, as an artistic work, in wisdom aspect, emotion aspect, and artistic language aspect. This research was conducted by studying 10 episodes Thai version of Phra-Sri-Mueang Drama which was edited and distributed by Faculty of Liberal Arts, Mahidol University, in B.E. 2552.

            The finding was that the Phra-Sri-Mueang Drama offered a concept of a type of person that could bring prosperity to country. The drama showed 7 qualifications or characteristics of the main character that made him qualified, namely having proper and high moral-spouse, having charisma, being elegant, being knowledgeable and capable, having magical items, and being supported. Three main feelings contained in this drama were romantic feeling, anguish, and comedy. These feelings were consistent with and supportive to the idea contained in this drama. The author proposed the characteristic of a man that should be able to bring prosperity to the country through the poetical drama. Phra-Sri-Mueang Drama was composed as a drama which contained traditional visualizing poetries, vocabulary rhymes, and sounding rhymes. This drama truly showed its elegance and the author’s linguistic ability.