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
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