TY - BOOK AU - Litvin,Margaret TI - Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost T2 - Translation/Transnation SN - 9780691137803 AV - PR2807 U1 - 822.33 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Arabic drama KW - Egypt KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Civilization KW - English influences KW - DRAMA KW - Shakespeare KW - Hamlet (Legendary character) KW - Heroes in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - Politics in literature KW - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 KW - Appreciation KW - Arab countries KW - Translations into Arabic KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern KW - bisacsh KW - 1970s KW - Alfred Farag KW - Arab Hamlet tradition KW - Arab Hamlet KW - Arab Shakespeare KW - Arab politics KW - Arabic theatre KW - Egyptian audiences KW - Egyptian theatre KW - English translations KW - Gamal Abdel Nasser KW - Hamlet adaptations KW - Hamlet rewriting KW - Hamlet KW - Hamletization KW - Iraq KW - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra KW - Jordan KW - June War KW - Kuwait KW - Salah Abdel Sabur KW - Shakespeare adaptations KW - Sulayman of Aleppo KW - Syria KW - The Tragedy of Al-Hallaj KW - allegorical political theatre KW - authenticity KW - collective political identity KW - death KW - dramatic irony KW - global kaleidoscope theory KW - historical agency KW - interiorized subjectivity KW - ironic laughter KW - legacy KW - literary studies KW - modern Arab identity KW - modern Arab politics KW - modern political agents KW - moral personhood KW - moral subjects KW - offshoot plays KW - polemical writings KW - political agency KW - political crises KW - political participation KW - political theatre KW - postcolonial period KW - postcolonial rewriting KW - psychological interiority KW - self-determination KW - twenty-first-century politics KW - world classics N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840106?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840106 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400840106/original ER -