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The Al-Hamlet Summit
Sulayman Al-Bassam
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Description for The Al-Hamlet Summit
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Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet as pure, dangerous ... Read more
Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet as pure, dangerous ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Hatfield, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902806624
SKU
V9781902806624
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About Sulayman Al-Bassam
Sulayman Al-Bassam is an Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and director. He is the author of the play The Mirror for Princes. Graham Holderness is the author of numerous critical studies in Renaissance and modern theatre including Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth and Textual Shakespeare: Writing and the Word.
Reviews for The Al-Hamlet Summit
"Al Bassam's astonishing text, which rarely echoes Shakespeare's words, takes the story of Hamlet and reworks it in a rich new poetic version, full of what sounds like Koranic and classical Arab imagery. Some of the results are electrifying"
Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman "Al-Hamlet is a superbly constructed dramatisation of a society's descent into fundamentalism and chaos"
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Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman "Al-Hamlet is a superbly constructed dramatisation of a society's descent into fundamentalism and chaos"
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