Hamlet's Arab journey
Subtitle: Shakespeare's prince and Nasser's ghost
By: Margaret Litvin
Series: Translation/transnation; Translation/transnation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780691137803
Subjects: Translations into Arabic; History and criticism; Arabic drama; Heroes in literature; Appreciation; Civilization; Hamlet (Legendary character); Politics in literature; English influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.237]-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Hamlet in the daily discourse of Arab identity; title: Nasser's dramatic imagination, 1952-64; title: The global kaleidoscope: how Egyptians got their Hamlet, 1901-64; title: Hamletizing the Arab Muslim hero, 1964-67; title: Time out of joint, 1967-76; title: Six plays in search of a protagonist, 1976-2002; title: Epilogue : Hamlets without Hamlet.