The Al-Hamlet Summit - by Sulayman Al-Bassam (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet as pure, dangerous politics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A superbly constructed dramatisation of a society's descent into fundamentalism and chaos." --<i>Sunday Herald</i><br><br>"Al-Bassam's astonishing text . . . takes the story of Hamlet and reworks it in a rich new poetic version . . . the results are electrifying." --<i>The Scotsman</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sulayman Al-Bassam</b> is an Anglo-Kuwaiti writer and director. He is the author of the play <i>The Mirror for Princes. </i><b>Graham Holderness</b> is the author of numerous critical studies in Renaissance and modern theatre including <i>Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth</i> and <i>Textual Shakespeare: Writing and the Word.</i>
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