Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: Katherine Hennessey and Margaret Litvin 1
5. Part I Critical Approaches & Translation Strategies
6. Chapter 1 Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet Tradition 13
7. Chapter 2 Decommercialising Shakespeare: Mutran’s Translation of Othello 35
8. Chapter 3 On Translating Shakespeare’s Sonnets into Arabic 63
9. Chapter 4 The Quest for the Sonnet: The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic Poetry 77
10. Chapter 5 Egypt between Two Shakespeare Quadricentennials 1964–2016 Reflective Remarks in Three Snapshots 102
11. Part II Adaptation & Performance
12. Chapter 6 The Taming of the Tigress: Faṭima Rushdī and the First Performance of Shrew in Arabic 121
13. Chapter 7 The Tunisian Stage: Shakespeare’s Part in Question 140
14. Chapter 8 Beyond Colonial Tropes: Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Palestine 152
15. Chapter 9 Bringing Lebanon’s Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alameddine’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Tragedies 172
16. Chapter 10 An Arabian Night with Swedish Direction: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Egypt and Sweden, 2003 188
17. Chapter 11 ‘Rudely Interrupted’ Shakespeare and Terrorism 197
18. Chapter 12 Othello in Oman: Aḥmad al-Izkī’s Fusion of Shakespeare and Classical Arab Epic 214
19. Chapter 13 ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Kamāl’s Dahsha: An Upper Egyptian Lear 235
20. Chapter 14 Ophelia Is Not Dead at 50 An Interview with Nabyl Lahlou 255
21. Index 265