مكعو, أسماءبداد, عبد العالي2025-10-162025-10-162025http://dspace.univ-temouchent.edu.dz/handle/123456789/6889This study aims to analyze the play “The Martyrs Return This Week” through the lens of symbolism and semantic condensation, focusing on the role of language, dialogue, and symbolic structures in the dramatic text, while also comparing them to the narrative text. The findings reveal that semantic condensation represents one of the key features that grants the play its artistic strength, as it operates through suggestion, omission, metaphor, and silence to produce multiple meanings within a concise and condensed form. Furthermore, the results highlight that drama differs from the novel in its mechanisms of meaning construction, since it condenses narration into dialogue, gestures, and symbols, which increases the audience’s role in reconstructing meaning. This approach demonstrates that the play does not merely depict events but creates an aesthetic and intellectual discourse that reinforces values of sacrifice, identity, and belonging.otherDrama, Symbolism, Semantic Condensation, Language, Novالمسرح؛الرمز؛التكثيف الدلالي؛اللغة؛الروايةThesis