Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Hennessey, Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 113758470X ISBN-13: 9781137584700 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Social History |
Dewey: 306.09 |
Series: Global Shakespeares |
Physical Information: 1.13" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.63 lbs) 340 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing, set in Kuwait in 1898; a 2011 performance in Sharjah of Macbeth, set in 9th-century Arabia; a 2013 Yemeni adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, in which the Shylock figure is not Jewish; and Hamlet, Get Out of My Head, a one-man show about an actor's fraught response to the Danish prince, which has been touring the cities of Saudi Arabia since 2014. |