Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre: the bitter cup and the holy rain
By - Ḥamdān, Masʻūd
Floor
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Floor 3
Published
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Sussex Academic Press, Brighton [England], 2006
ISBN 13 - 9781845191061
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Arabic drama Syria History and criticism
Shelf No
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10
Call Number
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892.7200 HAM
Physical Description
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x, 189 pages ; 24 cm
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