Modern and contemporary political theater from the Levant : a critical anthology / by Robert Myers, Nada Saab.
نوع المادة :
نصاللغة: الإنجليزية السلاسل:Studies on performing arts & literature of the Islamicate world ; volume 7 | الناشر:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]وصف:viii, 378 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789004375369
- PJ7565 .M94 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.
�Isam Mahfuz: The dictator -- Muhammad al-Maghut: The jester -- S�ad Allah Wannus: The rape -- Jawad al-Asadi: Baghdadi bath -- R�aida Taha: Where would I find someone like you, �Ali?
"In Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant, A Critical Anthology, Robert Myers and Nada Saab provide a sense of the variety and complexity of political theater produced in and around the Levant from the 1960s to the present within a context of wider discussions about political theater and the histories and forms of performance from the Islamic and Arab worlds. Five major playwrights are studied, �Isam Mahfuz, from Lebanon; Muhammad al-Maghut and S�ad Allah Wannus, from Syria; Jawad al-Asadi, from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon; and R�aida Taha, from Palestine. The volume includes translations of their plays The Dictator, The Jester, The Rape, Baghdadi Bath and Where Would I Find Someone Like You, �Ali?, respectively"--
