Hamlet's Arab Journey
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 obsessivel...
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 obsessivel...
