The Domestication and Arabization of the Bard: Towards the Reception of Shakespeare in the Arab World

Abstracts

EN

Since Najib al-Haddad and Tanyusʻ Abdu’s first Arabic versions of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet at the end of the 19th century, the reception of Shakespeare in the Arab world has gone through a process of adaptation, Arabization, and translation proper. We consider the process of Arabization / domestication of Shakespeare’s plays since Najib al-Haddad’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and Tanyusʻ Abdu’s adaptation of Hamlet, to the achievements of Khalīl Mutran and Muhammad Hamdi. We underline, as particular examples of Shakespeare’s appropriation, the literary response of Ali Ahmed Bakathir, Muhammad al-Maghut and Mamduh Udwan, with a particular stress on Khazal al-Majidi and his adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. All these writers reposition Shakespeare’s plays in an entirely different cultural space.

Keywords

EN

adaptation; Arabic; Arabization; cultural transfer; Khazal al-Majidi; repositioning; Shakespeare; translation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 38
• Pages: 43-57

Dates

published

2021-06-30

Contributors

other

Mohammed Naser Hassoon

• University of Thi-Qar, Nassiriyah, Iraq

• https://orcid.org/0000000279794469

Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2083-8530.23.03