The Resource Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
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The item Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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 ess
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction; 1 Hamlet in the Daily Discourse of Arab Identity; 2 Nasser's Dramatic Imagination, 1952-64; 3 The Global Kaleidoscope: How Egyptians Got Their Hamlet, 1901-64; 4 Hamletizing the Arab Muslim Hero, 1964-67; 5 Time Out of Joint, 1967-76; 6 Six Plays in Search of a Protagonist, 1976-2002; Epilogue: Hamlets without Hamlet; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Isbn
- 9786613280688
- Label
- Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
- Title
- Hamlet's Arab Journey
- Title remainder
- Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
- Subject
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- Arab countries
- Arabic drama
- Arabic drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Arabic drama -- Egypt -- History and criticism
- Art appreciation
- Civilization -- English influences
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- DRAMA -- Shakespeare
- Egypt
- Egypt -- Civilization | English influences
- Electronic books
- Hamlet (Shakespeare, William)
- Hamlet, (Legendary character)
- Hamlet, (Legendary character)
- Heroes in literature
- Heroes in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare
- Politics in literature
- Politics in literature
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Arab countries
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations into Arabic | History and criticism
- 1900-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 ess
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Litvin, Margaret
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Translation/transnation
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
- Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William
- Hamlet
- Heroes in literature
- Politics in literature
- Egypt
- Arabic drama
- Arabic drama
- DRAMA
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Arabic drama
- Art appreciation
- Civilization
- Heroes in literature
- Politics in literature
- Arab countries
- Egypt
- Label
- Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction; 1 Hamlet in the Daily Discourse of Arab Identity; 2 Nasser's Dramatic Imagination, 1952-64; 3 The Global Kaleidoscope: How Egyptians Got Their Hamlet, 1901-64; 4 Hamletizing the Arab Muslim Hero, 1964-67; 5 Time Out of Joint, 1967-76; 6 Six Plays in Search of a Protagonist, 1976-2002; Epilogue: Hamlets without Hamlet; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn758333964
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786613280688
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9786613280688
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttv73f
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)758333964
- Label
- Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translation; Introduction; 1 Hamlet in the Daily Discourse of Arab Identity; 2 Nasser's Dramatic Imagination, 1952-64; 3 The Global Kaleidoscope: How Egyptians Got Their Hamlet, 1901-64; 4 Hamletizing the Arab Muslim Hero, 1964-67; 5 Time Out of Joint, 1967-76; 6 Six Plays in Search of a Protagonist, 1976-2002; Epilogue: Hamlets without Hamlet; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Control code
- ocn758333964
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9786613280688
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9786613280688
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttv73f
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)758333964
Subject
- Arab countries
- Arabic drama
- Arabic drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Arabic drama -- Egypt -- History and criticism
- Art appreciation
- Civilization -- English influences
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- DRAMA -- Shakespeare
- Egypt
- Egypt -- Civilization | English influences
- Electronic books
- Hamlet (Shakespeare, William)
- Hamlet, (Legendary character)
- Hamlet, (Legendary character)
- Heroes in literature
- Heroes in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare
- Politics in literature
- Politics in literature
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Arab countries
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations into Arabic | History and criticism
- 1900-1999
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