Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost

by Margaret Litvin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137803
• ISBN13: 9780691137803
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"