Shakespeare on the Arabian Penninsula / Katherine Hennessey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hennessey, Catherine, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Global Shakespeare series

Global Shakespeares

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater.

Arabian Peninsula.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations.

Theater--Arabian Peninsula.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Physical Description:

xxi, 340 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

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 2014.0This groundbreaking study surveys the surprising history of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula, situating the current flourishing of Shakespearean performance and adaptation within the region?s complex, cosmopolitan, and rapidly changing socio-political contexts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

113758470X

9781137584700

OCLC:

1028610295