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The Al-Hamlet Summit Book

Presents a re-working of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' set in the Middle East. The setting of this version of the 'Hamlet' story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a 'new democracy'.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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 politics.

  • Pickabook

    Sulayman Al-Bassam, Graham Holderness

  • 190280662X
  • 9781902806624
  • Sulayman Al-Bassam, Graham Holderness
  • 10 August 2006
  • University of Hertfordshire Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • Bilingual
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