Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant : : A Critical Anthology / / Nada Saab, Robert Myers.

• VerfasserIn: Saab, Nada.
• Author: Myers, Robert,
• TeilnehmendeR: Myers, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World 07.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages).

In Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology , Robert Myers and Nada Saab provide a sense of the variety and complexity of political theater produced in and around the Levant from the 1960s to the present within a context of wider discussions about political theater and the histories and forms of performance from the Islamic and Arab worlds. Five major playwrights are studied, ʿIsam Mahfuz, from Lebanon; Muhammad al-Maghut and Saʿd Allah Wannus, from Syria; Jawad al-Asadi, from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon; and Raʾida Taha, from Palestine. The volume includes translations of their plays The Dictator , The Jester , The Rape , Baghdadi Bath and Where Would I Find Someone Like You, ʿAli? , respectively.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- A Note on the Translation, Transliteration and Performing Rights -- Introduction 1 / Robert Myers and Nada Saab -- 1 ʿIsam Mahfuz 28 / Robert Myers and Nada Saab -- 2 Muhammad al-Maghut 103 / Robert Myers and Nada Saab -- 3 Saʿd Allah Wannus 188 / Robert Myers and Nada Saab -- 4 Jawad al-Asadi 298 / Robert Myers and Nada Saab -- 5 Ra⁠ʾida Taha 331 / Robert Myers and Nada Saab -- Index 375 -- Back Matter -- Bibliography.