The Al-Hamlet Summit: A Political Arabesque

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 04/01/2007
ISBN: 9781902806624
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.24w x 0.38d