The Arab Shakespeare trilogy / by Sulayman Al Bassam ; introduced by Professor Graham Holderness.

Plays. Selections

xxii, 198 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Al-Hamlet summit ; 6 characters (4m, 2w). -- Richard III, an Arab tragedy ; Large cast. -- The speaker's progress ; 8 characters (5m, 3w)

"The Al-Hamlet Summit" sees the familiar characters within "Hamlet" reborn as delegates placed in a conference room in an unnamed modern Arab state on the brink of war; "Richard III, an Arab Tragedy" is a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's classic, reworked and transplanted into the scorching oil-rich Islamic world of the Arabian Gulf; while "The Speaker's Progress" is a forensic reconstruction of "Twelfth Night" which transforms into an unequivocal act of defiance towards the state, forming a dark satire on the decades of hopelessness and political inertia that fed twenty-first-century revolts across the Arab region.

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