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Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Global Shakespeares
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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. This 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. Through first-hand performance reviews,
interviews, and analysis of resources in Arabic and English, this
volume brings to light the ways in which local theatremakers,
students, and scholars use Shakespeare to address urgent regional
issues like authoritarianism, censorship, racial discrimination and
gender inequality.
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