Early Arabic Drama

by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī

This book, originally published in 1988, traces the development of Arabic drama from its beginnings in Lebanon in the mid-nineteenth century to its maturity reached in Egypt in the second and third decades of the twentieth. A brief discussion of the indigenous dramatic tradition is followed by an examination of the way in which modern drama was imported and adapted from the West independently by Marun Naqqash in Beirut and Ya'qūb Sannū'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521131669
• ISBN13: 9780521131667
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"