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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
“When Shakespeare Travels Abroad”
The Global Kaleidoscope
Hamlet and Political Agency
1 Hamlet in the Daily Discourse of Arab Identity
“Time Out of Joint”: Coming to Terms with History
“Shall We Be or Not Be?”: Personifying the Group
“Words, Words, Words”: Forging an Identity
“The Play’s the Thing”
2 Nasser’s Dramatic Imagination, 1952–64
Revolutionary Drama
Theatre Joins the Battle
Shakespeare on the Sidelines
3 The Global Kaleidoscope: How Egyptians Got Their Hamlet, 1901–64
Beyond Caliban
“Bend Again toward France”
“Do It, England!”
Independence and Soviet Shakespeare
Bidayr’s “Cruel Text”
4 Hamletizing the Arab Muslim Hero, 1964–67
In Search of Social Justice
Psychological Interiority as a Ground for Political Agency
Sulayman: “Justice or Oppression? That Is the Puzzle”
Al-Hallaj: “Who Will Give Me a Seeing Sword?”
De-Hamletized Revivals
5 Time Out of Joint, 1967–76
“Something Is Rotten”: Theatre and the 1967 Defeat
Martyrs for Justice: “Abstract and Brief Chronicles” of the 1970s
Sadat’s Open Door: “To Cook or Not to Cook?”
A Dilemma
6 Six Plays in Search of a Protagonist, 1976–2002
Silencing Hamlet
“A Play Can’t Stab”
“His Sword Kept Sticking Up”
A Prodigal Cousin
Post-Political Laughs
Epilogue: Hamlets without Hamlet
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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