Shakespeare and the Arab World (Shakespeare &, 3) ISBN-13: 9781789202588

ISBN-13: 9781789202588

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Hennessey, Katherine

Release Date: 17-07-2019

Languages: English

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 270

Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches

Details: Product Description
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.
About the Author
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).

Margaret Litvin is associate professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her book Hamlets Arab Journey: Shakespeares Prince and Nassers Ghost (Princeton UP, 2011), appeared in Soha Sebaie’s Arabic translation in 2017, and she co-edited and co-translated the companion anthology Four Arab Hamlet Plays (2016), one play from which was recently produced at Cornell University. Her current work explores two areas of transregional cultural flows: Arab-Russian literary ties, and contemporary Arab/ic theatre for global audiences. She has been an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow in Uppsala, Sweden, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin.