SHAKESPEARE AND THE ARAB WORLD

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation production adaptation and criticism this volume explores both international and locally focused Arabic appropriations of Shakespeare39s plays and sonnets In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performance in Qatar and an Upper Egyptian television series to the origin of the sonnets to an Englishlanguage novel about the Lebanese civil war Addressing materials produced in several languages from literary Arabic fuṣḥā and Egyptian colloquial Arabic 39ammiyya to Swedish and French these scholars and translators vary in discipline and origin and together exhibit the diversity and vibrancy of this field