The Al-Hamlet Summit Paperback / softback
by Sulayman Al-Bassam, Graham Holderness
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:University of Hertfordshire Press
- Publication Date:01/04/2007
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- ISBN:9781902806624
Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:University of Hertfordshire Press
- Publication Date:01/04/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9781902806624