TY - BOOK AU - Heidi Mohamed Elsayed Bayoume AU - Amal Aly Mazhar , AU - Heba Hassan Elabbadi , TI - The role of real and fantastic creatures in selected plays and films for children / PY - 2015/// CY - Cairo : PB - Heidi Mohamed Elsayed Bayoume , KW - Children's plays KW - Fantastic creatures KW - Real creatures N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - This thesis seeks to examine the roles of real and fantastic creatures in plays and films for children to throw light on the different psychological, environmental and moral/social concerns and messages they reveal. The hypothesis upon which this thesis is built is that real and fantastic creatures play diverse roles in affecting the dramatic structure of the works, revealing the themes, and teaching the children protagonists important lessons that help them cope with the real world and the problems they face UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -