Hamlet's Arab Journey : : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost / / Margaret Litvin.
For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and as...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Translation/Transnation ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 8 halftones. 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Introduction
- 1. Hamlet in the Daily Discourse of Arab Identity
- 2. Nasser ’ s Dramatic Imagination,1952–64
- 3. The Global Kaleidoscope: How Egyptians Got Their Hamlet, 1901–64
- 4. Hamletizing the Arab Muslim Hero, 1964–67
- 5. Time Out of Joint, 1967–76
- 6. Six Plays in Search of a Protagonist, 1976–2002
- Epilogue: Hamlets without Hamlet
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index