Shakespeare and the Arab World

Katherine Hennessey, Margaret Litvin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-258-8 (ISBN)

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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 (fuṣḥā) 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.

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).

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: Faṭima Rushdī 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: Aḥmad al-Izkī’s Fusion of Shakespeare and Classical Arab Epic

Katherine Hennessey

Chapter 13. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Kamāl’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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Shakespeare &
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78920-258-2 / 1789202582
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-258-8 / 9781789202588
Zustand	Neuware