Forget Hamlet
Title | Forget Hamlet PDF eBook |
Author | Jawad Al-Asadi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Arabic drama |
ISBN | 9780646463124 |
Hamlet's Arab Journey
Title | Hamlet's Arab Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Litvin |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2011-10-23 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0691137803 |
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 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.
The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Title | The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Cowden Clarke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 894 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | |
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Henry VIII. Pericles. Poems
Title | The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Henry VIII. Pericles. Poems PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Title | Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness PDF eBook |
Author | Rhodri Lewis |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2020-04-14 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0691204519 |
'Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness' is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern England and Europe, Rhodri Lewis reveals a 'Hamlet' unseen for centuries: an innovative, coherent, and exhilaratingly bleak tragedy in which the governing ideologies of Shakespeare's age are scrupulously upended.
Hamlet: Critical Essays
Title | Hamlet: Critical Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph G. Price |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2014-02-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317814339 |
A comprehensive collection of the best writing about this Shakespearian play, both as dramatic literature and theatrical performance, this book is an excellent resource companion to the text. This collected wisdom was originally published in 1986. It contains pieces of commentary from as far back as the late 18th Century but also highly acclaimed critical pieces from more recent years, organised into six general themes.
Five Somewhat Historical Plays
Title | Five Somewhat Historical Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Moeller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Historical drama |
ISBN |