the Crusades. 1 Drawing on the varied treatment of the Orient in English literary studies, this article attempts to explore Shakespeare's representations of the Orient in his oeuvre. Shakespeare reflects in his drama and poetry the vibrant spirit of
Shakespeare’s Orientalism Revisited
A Postcolonial Study of the Appropriation of Arabic/Islamic Allusions and Matters in the Bard’s Oeuvre
Mahmoud F. Al-Shetawi
Mohamed Enani
A puzzle: why should all translators the world over and down the centuries translate verse into verse, while we Arabs, who boast a rich tradition of verse, use prose to render Shakespeare’s sonnets? After many decades in which Shakespeare’s Arab
Biography and Shakespeare’s Money
Portraits of an Economic Persona
Paola Pugliatti
, then, the residuum that, as the first Greek biographer reminds us, should not be dissolved, is its capacity to describe ‘the general historical meaning of an individual’s life’. 11 The challenge of Shakespeare’s lives Let me now move on to Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Fools
A Piece in a Peacebuilding Mosaic
Maja Milatovic-Ovadia
young people strung across the Omarska community theatre space. Lengthy applause. Forty young people storm the stage and bow. This was the end of a four-month-long theatre project entitled Shakespeare's Comedies – A Midsummer Night's Dream (2013), run
Shakespeare in Yosemite
Applied Theatre in a National Park
Katherine Steele Brokaw and Paul Prescott
-first-century, more of the present cultural moment, than Applied Shakespeare. 1 This article is about Shakespeare in Yosemite, a project co-founded by the authors that attempts to apply Shakespeare to the crises of environmental disaster and the exploitation of
Adam Hansen
To arrest the meanings of words once and for all, that is what Terror wants. —Jean-François Lyotard, Rudiments païens This article joins the contributions of others in exploring some of the challenges of talking and thinking about Shakespeare in an
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 95–113 (19 total)
‘Shakespeare Had the Passion of an Arab’
The Appropriation of Shakespeare in Fadia Faqir’s Willow Trees Don’t Weep
Hussein A. Alhawamdeh
This article traces William Shakespeare’s echo in Willow Trees Don’t Weep (2014) by Fadia Faqir, a Jordanian/British novelist, to examine the function of Faqir’s appropriation of Shakespeare’s Othello (1604) and Cymbeline (1611) in creating
John Drakakis
’ translation offers some hints as to how we might read Athenian benevolence, liberality and aristocratic modesty, transplanted into early modern political and social discourse. Indeed, it is in Timon of Athens (c.1606) that Shakespeare, and a possible
Franziska Quabeck
equally address the audience. We judge. And in this play, we cannot help but judge the incredible futility of what is allegedly the most glamorous war of all time. In Shakespeare’s retelling, this legendary conflict is a cynical endeavour in which both
Loving Shakespeare
Anne Tyler's Vinegar Girl and the Hogarth Shakespeare Project
Elizabeth Rivlin
Near the end of a promotional video that Vintage Books produced to launch the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, novelistic retellings of seven of Shakespeare's plays, several of the participating authors take turns reciting the famous closing couplet