Shakespeare and the Arab World

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-259-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Shakespeare &

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performance in Qatar and an Upper Egyptian television series to the origin of the sonnets to an English-language novel about the Lebanese civil war. Addressing materials produced in several languages from literary Arabic (fusha) and Egyptian colloquial Arabic (‘ammiyya) to Swedish and French, these scholars and translators vary in discipline and origin, and together exhibit the diversity and vibrancy of this field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hennessey, Katherine

Litvin, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Katherine Hennessey and Margaret Litvin

PART I: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND TRANSLATION STRATEGIES

Chapter 1. Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet Tradition

Margaret Litvin

Chapter 2. Decommercialising Shakespeare: Mutran's Translation of Othello

Sameh F. Hanna

Chapter 3. On Translating Shakespeare’s Sonnets into Arabic

Mohamed Enani

Chapter 4. The Quest for the Sonnet: The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic Poetry

Kamal Abu-Deeb

Chapter 5. Egypt between Two Shakespeare Quadricentennials 1964–2016: Reflective Remarks in Three Snapshots

Hazem Azmy

PART II: ADAPTATION AND PERFORMANCE

Chapter 6. The Taming of the Tigress: Fatima Rushdi and the First Performance of Shrew in Arabic

David C. Moberly



Chapter 7. The Tunisian Stage: Shakespeare’s Part in Question

Rafik Darragi

Chapter 8. Beyond Colonial Tropes: Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Palestine

Samer al-Saber

Chapter 9. Bringing Lebanon’s Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alameddine’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Yousef Awad

Chapter 10. An Arabian Night with Swedish Direction: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Egypt and Sweden, 2003

Robert Lyons

Chapter 11. 'Rudely Interrupted': Shakespeare and Terrorism

Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey

Chapter 12. Othello in Oman: Ahmad al-Izki’s Fusion of Shakespeare and Classical Arab Epic

Katherine Hennessey

Chapter 13. 'Abd al-Rahim Kamal’s Dahsha: An Upper Egyptian Lear

Noha Mohamad Mohamad Ibraheem

Chapter 14. Ophelia Is Not Dead at 47: An Interview with Nabyl Lahlou

Khalid Amine

Über Autor(innen)

Litvin, Margaret
Margaret Litvin is associate professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her book Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost (Princeton UP, 2011), appeared in Soha Sebaie’s Arabic translation in 2017, and she co-edited and co-translated the companion anthology Four Arab Hamlet Plays (2016), one play from which was recently produced at Cornell University. Her current work explores two areas of transregional cultural flows: Arab-Russian literary ties, and contemporary Arab/ic theatre for global audiences. She has been an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow in Uppsala, Sweden, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin.

Hennessey, Katherine
Katherine Hennessey is Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. Her scholarship focuses on the performing arts in the Arabian Gulf, Yemen, and Ireland. She is the author of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (Palgrave 2018) and director of the short documentary Shakespeare in Yemen, which was screened in June 2018 at the Signature Theatre in New York City and at the 2018 MESA FilmFest. She is the recipient of a year-long NEH Fellowship for her next book project, entitled Theatre on the Arabian Peninsula (Routledge 2020).

Katherine Hennessey is Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. Her scholarship focuses on the performing arts in the Arabian Gulf, Yemen, and Ireland. She is the author of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (Palgrave 2018) and director of the short documentary Shakespeare in Yemen, which was screened in June 2018 at the Signature Theatre in New York City and at the 2018 MESA FilmFest. She is the recipient of a year-long NEH Fellowship for her next book project, entitled Theatre on the Arabian Peninsula (Routledge 2020).