The Al-Hamlet Summit

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.

• Author
• Sulayman Al-Bassam, Graham Holderness

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 176

• Publisher
• University Of Hertfordshire Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781902806624

• Genres
• plays, college, school, fiction

• Release date
• 2007