Shakespeare in the Arab World

On Shakespeare translations, productions, adaptations, spin-offs, and parodies in Arab countries as well as Arab-themed Shakespeare uses elsewhere. Comments and suggestions to arabshakespeare [at] gmail.com.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Holderness on Al-Bassam

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Graham Holderness has an article on Sulayman Al-Bassam's Shakespeare adaptations in the current European Journal of English Studies (Vo...

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Villain Steals the Show (Claudius article)

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The current Journal of Arabic Literature has my piece on versions of Claudius in post-1975 Arab appropriations of Hamlet . Basically I argu...

Bayer on Arab Merchant of Venice

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Periodically when you're talking about Arab Shakespeare appropriation some mischievous soul will ask: "So, what do they do with The...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Loughrey in Dubai

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This from the MENA Financial News, not known for the subtlety of their reporting. If there is any distinction between "wrote for,"...

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Saturday, January 12, 2008

My review of Al-Bassam's Richard

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Almost a year later (who knows how the production has evolved by now?) my review of Sulayman Al-Bassam's Richard III: An Arab Tragedy is...

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Journal issue devoted to Arab Shakespeare

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The current issue of Critical Survey brings together seven articles on Arab/ic adaptations, translations, and rewritings of Shakespeare...

Article on Arab Shakespeare from Libya

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An article by Sondos Elgatit in the Tripoli Post (24/11/2007), titled, "Shakespeare in Arabia," reads Sulayman al-Bassam's ver...

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