dc.contributor.author | Al-Bassam, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Holderness, G. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-06T11:13:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-06-06T11:13:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Al-Bassam , S & Holderness , G 2006 , The Al-Hamlet summit . University of Hertfordshire Press . | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1902806624 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781902806624 | |
dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/5895 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5895 | |
dc.description | Full text of this book is not available in the UHRA | |
dc.description.abstract | The room is set up like a conference hall somewhere in the Arab world, or perhaps like the legislative assembly of a small modern state. There are desks with push-button microphones and headsets. Behind, there is a screen, as if someone planned to give a Powerpoint presentation. But the names on the desks are the familiar characters from "Hamlet". The setting of Sulayman Al Bassam's powerful, disturbing version of the "Hamlet" story is a modern Middle-Eastern state whose old king has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, westernised dictator who has married the old king's wife to legitimise his rule, and calls his regime a "new democracy". | en |
dc.format.extent | 176 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | University of Hertfordshire Press | |
dc.title | The Al-Hamlet summit | en |
dc.contributor.institution | English Literature and Creative Writing | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | English Literature | |
rioxxterms.type | Book | |
herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |