| Description |
1 online resource (292 pages). |
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text file |
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Translation/transnation
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Translation/transnation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Arab countries.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Arab countries. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations into Arabic -- History and criticism.
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Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) |
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Hamlet (Legendary character)
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Hamlet (Legendary character) |
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Heroes in literature.
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Heroes in literature. |
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Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
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Egypt -- Civilization -- English influences.
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Egypt. |
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Civilization. |
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Arabic drama -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
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Arabic drama. |
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Arabic drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Litvin, Margaret. Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691137803 |
| ISBN |
9781400840106 (electronic book) |
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1400840104 (electronic book) |
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9786613280688 (electronic book) |
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6613280682 (electronic book) |
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128328068X |
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9781283280686 |
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9780691137803 (alkaline paper) |
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0691137803 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613280688 |
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