Litvin Hamlet's Arab Journey

Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4010-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 296 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Litvin, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Note on Transliteration and Translation xvii

Introduction 1

"When Shakespeare Travels Abroad" 3

The Global Kaleidoscope 6

Hamlet and Political Agency 8

Chapter 1: Hamlet in the Daily Discourse of Arab Identity 13

"Time Out of Joint": Coming to Terms with History 16

"Shall We Be or Not Be?": Personifying the Group 23

"Words, Words, Words": Forging an Identity 29

"The Play's the Thing" 33

Chapter 2: Nasser's Dramatic Imagination, 1952-64 35

Revolutionary Drama 37

Theatre Joins the Battle 44

Shakespeare on the Sidelines 50

Chapter 3: The Global Kaleidoscope: How Egyptians Got Their Hamlet, 1901-64 53

Beyond Caliban 54

"Bend Again toward France" 59

"Do It, England!" 70

Independence and Soviet Shakespeare 75

Bidayr's "Cruel Text" 85

Chapter 4: Hamletizing the Arab Muslim Hero, 1964-67 91 In Search of Social Justice 93

Psychological Interiority as a Ground for Political Agency 95

Sulayman: "Justice or Oppression? That Is the Puzzle" 95

Al-Hallaj: "Who Will Give Me a Seeing Sword?" 103

De-Hamletized Revivals 111

Chapter 5: Time Out of Joint, 1967-76 114

"Something Is Rotten": Theatre and the 1967 Defeat 116

M artyrs for Justice: "Abstract and Brief Chronicles" of the 1970s 124

Sadat's Open Door: "To Cook or Not to Cook?" 134

A Dilemma 140

Chapter 6: Six Plays in Search of a Protagonist, 1976-2002 142

Silencing Hamlet 144

"A Play Can't Stab" 147

"His Sword Kept Sticking Up" 163

A Prodigal Cousin 173

Post-Political Laughs 179

Epilogue: Hamlets without Hamlet 183

Notes 189

Bibliography 237

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Litvin is assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at Boston University.