Arab Shakespeare
Our project is developing a new area of Shakespeare studies both within and beyond the academy.
Scope and context
Arab dramatists have been translating and adapting Shakespeare’s plays for over a century, but there has been no substantial body of critical work on the topic, and little public awareness of its existence.
Led by Professor Graham Holderness, this work on Arab Shakespeare has led to the emergence of such a body of work, and to a raised international and media profile for the topic.
Our research has focused on the work of Kuwaiti dramatist Sulayman-Al-Bassam, as well as covering a wider field of Arab theatre work.
Events
- 2011 Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture, Shakespeare’s Globe June 2011
- The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: staging a region in tumult’, panel with Sulayman Al-Bassam and Margaret Litvin, Boston University, October 2011
- Post-show discussion panel on Sulayman Al-Bassam’s ‘The Speaker’s Progress’, with Sulayman Al-Bassam and Margaret Litvin, Paramount Theatre, Boston, October 2011
Publications
- 'Strangers ... with vs in Venice', in Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, eds. Laura Tosi and Shaul Bassi (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 125-141
- Shakespeare and Terror (with Bryan Loughrey), Shakespeare After 9/11 (special issue of Shakespeare Yearbook) (eds. Matthew Biberman, Julia Reinhard Lupton) (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011)
- Playing Sheik Al-Zubir, Around the Globe, 48 (Summer 2011), pp. 18-19