A New Prologue to the Shahnameh

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A New Prologue to the Shahnameh

Author	Bahram Beyzai
Original title	دیباچه‌ی نوین شاهنامه
Translator	Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami & Pari Shirazi
Cover artist	Aydin Aghdashloo
Language	Persian
Genre	Screenplay
Publication date	1990
Publication place	Iran
Published in English	2008
Pages	118
ISBN	964-5512-35-2

A New Prologue to the Shahnameh (Persian: دیباچه‌ی نوین شاهنامه) is an unproduced screenplay by Bahram Beyzai, written in 1986 and first published in 1990. It consists of an imaginary account of the life and times of Ferdowsi.

Abdolali Dastgheib praised the book in an extensive review and, later, among others, Soheila Najm studied it in a series of articles.

An English translation appeared in 2008 in an anthology named Sohrab's Wars:

• Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi and Pari Shirazi. Sohrab's Wars: Counter Discourses of Contemporary Persian Fiction, A Collection of Short Stories and a Film Script. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2008. ISBN 978-1-56859-224-4

• Ferdowsi (film)

• Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi. Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran? London: Routledge. 2015.
• دست‌غیب، عبدالعلی. "فیلمنامه: دیباچهٔ نوین شاهنامه." چیستا. 1992.
• نجم، سهیلا. "بررسی فیلمنامه‌ی دیباچه‌ی نوین شاهنامه: مجموعه‌یی از نشانه‌ها و تمثیل‌ها در ارتباط با دنیای ذهنی نویسنده." نقد سینما. 2009.

• دیباچه‌ی نوین شاهنامه on Open Library at the Internet Archive