Representation of Iraqi Identity in Munadhil Dawood Al-Bayati’s Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad

This study is an attempt to investigate how critical discourse analysis (CDA) can be employed as the primary analytical framework. Shakespeare has been under intense artistic and crucial examination for the past few years; this study places his dramatic heritage in a variety of historical and cultural contexts, going well beyond its original Elizabethan context. The focus has been on Romeo and Juliet as a global love tale that is referred to as unique due to its timeless nature and applicability to all ages, societies, and circumstances. So, Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad by Munadhil Dawood AL-Bayati is selected to reflect the Iraqi people's suffering during the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led international coalition. The purposeful use of this work is to insist on the Iraqi identity which appears clear through the characters' use of language and many linguistic items. The study depends on the objectives of the study which are: To investigate how the textual strategies are employed by the playwright in his play Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad to represent the Iraqi identity, examine the discursive strategies utilized by the playwright to reflect the Iraqi identity and identify the social strategies used to represent Iraqi identity. This study examines the main linked topics that address the study's methodological elements in order to demonstrate how the researcher employs a variety of effective strategies using the present analysis; it adopted Fairclough's (2003) three-dimensional approach, which provided qualitative answers to the research questions .The study identifies the interconnected scope of the enormous sectarian experience that Iraqis faced in the years following 2003 and the focus will be on certain extracts(ten extracts) that show the representation of Iraqi identity vividly.