Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost.

By:

Litvin, Margaret

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Translation/transnationPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400840106
1400840104
9786613280688
6613280682
128328068X
9781283280686

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost.DDC classification:

822.3/3

LOC classification:

PR2807 .L63 2011eb

Other classification:

HI 3341

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Contents:

Cover; 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.

Summary: 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 asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the ess.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the ess.

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