PATRİOTİC TRADİTİONS İN ABAY DAĞLI'S PLAY "DADE GORGUD" Aliyeva Happy Tayyan ADPU, Department of Literature Teaching Technology Doctor of philosophy in philology, senior teacher Orcid : 0000-0002-6511-7002 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13894210 Abstract: One of the drama works written on the motif of the epic "Kitabi-Dada Gorgud" is the play "Dada Gorgud" by the Azerbaijani writer Abay Daghli (1909-1989), who lived in exile. In this work, the author freely approached "Kitabi-Dade Gorgud" and tried to express his thoughts and opinions about the modern world, reality, especially national conflicts, by referring to history. The main direction of our today's study is to compare the examples of both epic types. Key words: play, epic, describe, epic