![]() | Hamlet''s Arab Journey: Shakespeare''s Prince and Nasser''s Ghost Subjects: Shakespeare William 1564–1616. Hamlet; Shakespeare William 1564–1616 -- Appreciation -- Arab countries; Shakespeare William 1564–1616 -- Translations into Arabic -- History and criticism; Hamlet (Legendary character); Heroes in literature; Politics; 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 the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike. Margaret Litvin is assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at Boston University. |
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