| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 430 pages) |
| Series |
A Margellos world republic of letters book |
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Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Contents |
A note on transcription -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PLAYS. An evening's entertainment for the fifth of June -- The adventure of the head of Mamlouk Jabir -- Wretched dreams -- Rituals of signs and transformations -- SPEECHES, ESSAYS, AND INTERVIEWS. Thirst for dialogue -- The dream falls apart -- On the performance of The adventure of the head of Mamlouk Jabir in Moscow -- Theater as mirror -- It all begins with the audience -- For the first time writing is a form of freedom, for the first time writing is a pleasure |
| Summary |
The first major English language collection of plays and essays by Syrian playwright Sa'dallah Wannous. Sa'dallah Wannous is acknowledged to be one of the Arab world's most significant playwrights, writers, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. This is the first major English language collection that brings together his most significant plays and essays. Selections include the groundbreaking 1969 play An Evening's Entertainment for the Fifth of June, a scathing indictment of the duplicity of Arab leaders during the 1967 War, as well as Wannous's most celebrated play, Rituals of Signs and Transformations, a bold treatment of homosexuality, prostitution, clerical corruption, and the quest for female liberation. In addition to his work as a playwright, Wannous, like Brecht, was an astute theatrical and cultural critic, and his essays, some of which are included here, offer shrewd diagnoses of the ills of Arab society and the essential role of theater in ameliorating them |
| Notes |
Translated from the Arabic |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Wannūs, Saʻd Allāh, 1941-1997 -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Wannūs, Saʻd Allāh, 1941-1997 fast |
| Subject |
FICTION -- General.
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DRAMA -- Middle Eastern.
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Myers, Robert (Professor of English), translator, writer of introduction.
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Saab, Nada, translator, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9780300245479 |
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0300245475 |
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