Sulayman Al-Bassam

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 politics.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Holderness, Graham

ISBN: 978-1-902806-62-4
EAN: 9781902806624
Produktnummer: 2622616
Verlag: University of Hertfordshire Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.0 cm 314 g
Abbildungen: b/w photographs
Gewicht: 314
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Sulayman Al-Bassam is an Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and director based in London and Kuwait. His next play, The Mirror For Princes will be premiered at the Barbican in Spring 2006.