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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Translation/Transnation ; 28Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (296 p.) : 8 halftones. 3 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691137803
  • 9781400840106
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 23
LOC classification:
  • PR2807
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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 "ed 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 essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike. On the Arab stage, Hamlet has been an operetta hero, a firebrand revolutionary, and a muzzled dissident. Analyzing productions from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait, Litvin follows the distinct phases of Hamlet's naturalization as an Arab. Her fine-grained theatre history uses personal interviews as well as scripts and videos, reviews, and detailed comparisons with French and Russian Hamlets. The result shows Arab theatre in a new light. Litvin identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic Hamlet, shows the outsize influence of Soviet and East European Shakespeare, and explores the deep cultural link between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and the ghost of Hamlet's father. Documenting how global sources and models helped nurture a distinct Arab Hamlet tradition, Hamlet's Arab Journey represents a new approach to the study of international Shakespeare appropriation.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
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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

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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 "ed 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 essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike. On the Arab stage, Hamlet has been an operetta hero, a firebrand revolutionary, and a muzzled dissident. Analyzing productions from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait, Litvin follows the distinct phases of Hamlet's naturalization as an Arab. Her fine-grained theatre history uses personal interviews as well as scripts and videos, reviews, and detailed comparisons with French and Russian Hamlets. The result shows Arab theatre in a new light. Litvin identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic Hamlet, shows the outsize influence of Soviet and East European Shakespeare, and explores the deep cultural link between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and the ghost of Hamlet's father. Documenting how global sources and models helped nurture a distinct Arab Hamlet tradition, Hamlet's Arab Journey represents a new approach to the study of international Shakespeare appropriation.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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