Al-Hamlet Summit

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Presents a re-working of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" set in the Middle East. The setting of this version of the "Hamlet" story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a "new democracy".

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-04-01
Mått:165 x 241 x 8 mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:University of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN:9781902806624

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Dramatik inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Sulayman Al-Bassam is an Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and director. He is the author of the play The Mirror for Princes. Graham Holderness is the author of numerous critical studies in Renaissance and modern theatre including Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth and Textual Shakespeare: Writing and the Word.

Recensioner i media

"Al Bassam's astonishing text, which rarely echoes Shakespeare's words, takes the story of Hamlet and reworks it in a rich new poetic version, full of what sounds like Koranic and classical Arab imagery. Some of the results are electrifying" -- Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman "Al-Hamlet is a superbly constructed dramatisation of a society's descent into fundamentalism and chaos" -- Sunday Herald