Saad al faraj biography of william shakespeare

  • This study is an examination of the life and work of the Kuwaiti dramatist Saad al-Faraj ( -).
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  • A political and social comedy about a Khaleeji tourist running away from his family to lavishly enjoy the wealth he attained late in his life, reflecting the.
  • Bye Bye London: Theater & Imperialism in the Gulf

    Introduction

    Kuwaiti actor Abdulhussain Abdulredha () is a crowning figure in the history of Arab theater. In the last act of his renowned play Bye Bye London, the protagonist, Kuwaiti businessman Sharid bin Jum‘ah, bids his farewell to a city that not only made him confront the continued legacy of British imperialism, but also exploited him every step of the way. The audience, forty years later, with memory of the beloved actor’s passing in the same city, are sure to shiver when Abdulredha ends the play by saying, “bye London, and bye for eternity.”1 Since it premiered at the Kaifan Theater in Kuwait in , Bye Bye London, co-authored with Egyptian playwright Nabil Badran and directed by Tunisian director Moncef Souissi, has achieved unprecedented success. A political and social comedy about a Khaleeji tourist running away from his family to lavishly enjoy the wealth he attained late in his life, reflecting the changed econo

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  • Shakespeare and the Arab World

    Table of contents :
    Contents
    List of Illustrations
    Introduction: Katherine Hennessey and Margaret Litvin
    Part I Critical Approaches & Translation Strategies
    Chapter 1 Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet Tradition
    Chapter 2 Decommercialising Shakespeare: Mutran’s Translation of Othello
    Chapter 3 On Translating Shakespeare’s Sonnets into Arabic
    Chapter 4 The Quest for the Sonnet: The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic Poetry
    Chapter 5 Egypt between Two Shakespeare Quadricentennials – Reflective Remarks in Three Snapshots
    Part II Adaptation & Performance
    Chapter 6 The Taming of the Tigress: Faṭima Rushdī and the First Performance of Shrew in Arabic
    Chapter 7 The Tunisian Stage: Shakespeare’s Part in Question
    Chapter 8 Beyond Colonial Tropes: Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Palestine
    Chapter 9 Bringing Lebanon’s Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alameddine’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Tragedies
    Chapter 10 An Arabian Night

    Academic literature on the topic 'Arab Dramatists'

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    Last updated: 30 July

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    Mahfouz, Safi Mahmoud. "Tragedy in the Arab Theatre: the Neglected Genre." New Theatre Quarterly 27, no. 4 (November ): –

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    In this article Safi Mahmoud Mahfouz investigates the curr