Among Hamlet’s many guises, that of the brooding philosopher-prince is perhaps the one with which Western audiences are most familiar: The eternal student who’s always second-guessing himself, who’d much prefer to soliloquize for another scene or two rather than take action and avenge his father’s death. For its production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Arabian Shakespeare Festival draws on an interpretation of the play from scholar Margaret Litvin. “The archetypal Arab reading of the character,” she writes in “Four Arab Hamlet Plays” is as “a nationalist revolutionary, a fighter for justice brutally martyred by the Claudius regime.” William J.
Arabian Shakespeare Festival Gives ‘hamlet’ ‘archetypal Arab Reading’
By Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Mon, 11/13/2017 - 9:48pm
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