Hamlet's Arab Journey : Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost.

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 as...

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Main Author: Litvin, Margaret
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Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
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