What is the name of the tragic heroine in Ahmad Shawqi's 1927 verse play — the first true poetic drama in modern Arabic literature — based on the legendary pre-Islamic lover who died of passion in the desert?

• A Antara
• B Majnun Layla ✓
• C Jamil Buthayna
• D Qays ibn al-Mulawwah

Ahmad Shawqi's 'Majnun Layla' (1927), a five-act verse tragedy, reimagines the 7th-century legend of Qays — driven mad by his forbidden love for Layla — as a neoclassical drama that brought blank verse to the Arabic stage for the first time, cementing Shawqi's title as 'Amir al-Shu'ara' (Prince of Poets).