Shakespeare and the Arab World /

Shakespeare and the Arab World / / ed. by Margaret Litvin, Katherine Hennessey.

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Abu-Deeb, Kamal,
Al-Saber, Samer,
Amine, Khalid,
Awad, Yousef,
Azmy, Hazem,
Darragi, Rafik,
Enani, Mohamed,
Hanna, Sameh F.,
Hennessey, Katherine,
Holderness, Graham,
Ibraheem, Noha Mohamad Mohamad,
Litvin, Margaret,
Loughrey, Bryan,
Lyons, Robert,
Moberly, David C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Hennessey, Katherine,
Litvin, Margaret,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Shakespeare & ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Katherine Hennessey and Margaret Litvin
  • Part I Critical Approaches & Translation Strategies
  • Chapter 1 Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet Tradition
  • Chapter 2 Decommercialising Shakespeare: Mutran’s Translation of Othello
  • Chapter 3 On Translating Shakespeare’s Sonnets into Arabic
  • Chapter 4 The Quest for the Sonnet: The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic Poetry
  • Chapter 5 Egypt between Two Shakespeare Quadricentennials 1964–2016 Reflective Remarks in Three Snapshots
  • Part II Adaptation & Performance
  • Chapter 6 The Taming of the Tigress: Faṭima Rushdī and the First Performance of Shrew in Arabic
  • Chapter 7 The Tunisian Stage: Shakespeare’s Part in Question
  • Chapter 8 Beyond Colonial Tropes: Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Palestine
  • Chapter 9 Bringing Lebanon’s Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alameddine’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Tragedies
  • Chapter 10 An Arabian Night with Swedish Direction: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Egypt and Sweden, 2003
  • Chapter 11 ‘Rudely Interrupted’ Shakespeare and Terrorism
  • Chapter 12 Othello in Oman: Aḥmad al-Izkī’s Fusion of Shakespeare and Classical Arab Epic
  • Chapter 13 ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Kamāl’s Dahsha: An Upper Egyptian Lear
  • Chapter 14 Ophelia Is Not Dead at 50 An Interview with Nabyl Lahlou
  • Index

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