Poetics, politics and protest in Arab theatre : the bitter cup and the holy rain / Masʻud Hamdan.

By:

Ḥamdān, Masʻūd

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2006.Description: x, 189 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1845191064
9781845191061

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Poetics, politics and protest in Arab theatre.DDC classification:

892.7/2009358/095691 22

LOC classification:

PJ8101 .H355 2006

Online resources:

Table of contents

Contents:

1. Theatrical genres and the carnivalesque : art of the theatre -- 2. Theatre in the Arab World : the historical background -- 3. The early comedies of Durayd Lahham and Nihad Qal'i : birth pangs of late satire -- 4. When a gay rogue grows to be a tragic fool : the carnivalesque satires.

Summary: Writing from a socio-historical point of view, the author surveys and discusses the popular theatrical phenomena in the Arab world from the Hellenic period to the beginning of the 21st century. He notes the Eastern carnivalesque folk sources and the tendency toward comedy rather than tragedy.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index.

Writing from a socio-historical point of view, the author surveys and discusses the popular theatrical phenomena in the Arab world from the Hellenic period to the beginning of the 21st century. He notes the Eastern carnivalesque folk sources and the tendency toward comedy rather than tragedy.

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