Modern Arabic Drama In Egypt

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521242223
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt written by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. A discussion of the work of Tawfiq al-Hakim is followed by an examination of the less experimental plays of his successors, Mahmud Taymur, Bakathir and Fathi Radwan.

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafā Badawī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt written by Muḥammad Muṣṭafā Badawī and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim Abdel-Hamid Shiha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Study of Traditional Themes in Modern Egyptian Drama written by Abdel-Hamid Ibrahim Abdel-Hamid Shiha and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing realization that drama, since it first appeared In the mid-nineteenth century in Arabic literature as an imported genre from the West, has come a long way to identify Itself with the past cultural tradition of the Arabs. The aim of this thesis is to examine the rise of traditional themes which over the years have come to constitute an important part of modern Egyptian drama. In order to explain this process and its manifold phases of development the study has been projected in eight chapters. The first two chapters provide the general background to this thesis. Firstly, I deal with the dramatic elements in the literary tradition to be found in the maqamat and shadow plays in the heritage of Arabic drama in Egypt. Secondly, I present a general view of Modern Arabic literature, during the revivalist movement that was motivated by political and national considerations. Against this setting, I have dealt with the appearance of drama and the pioneering efforts made to establish it on the firm ground of tradition as well as the reasons for doing so. This early phase reached its climax in the poetic drama of the important poet Ahmad Shawqi, whose contribution as a dramatist has been evaluated through a critical analysis of one of his best dramatic works. It emerges from this study that Shawqi represents the natural mid-way link between the early attempts and later phase of the full flowering of Arabic drama. In the fourth chapter I have focussed my attention on Tawfiq al-Hakim as the dominant figure in Arabic drama up to now. Three major plays have been examined thoroughly in order to trace the influence of the Areb-Islamic tradition upon his drama, and to stress the natural and artistic fusion of certain elements blended from two seemingly incompatible cultures: the Occidental and the Oriental. The fifth chapter is concerned with an evaluation of the changes that occurred in modern Arabic poetry in order to meet the needs of drama. This is followed by two chapters which trace the impact of tradition on the themes of Arabic verse drama. The first deals with the Sufi tradition as revealed in one of the plays of Salah Abd al-Sabur, a prominent poet of the new movement of Arabic poetry. The second shows how a traditional historical narrative serves the theme of rebellion in one of the plays of Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi, a writer with socialist affiliations. Finally, Chapter Eight provides a critical assessment of the works studied above, and a discussion of some of the major problems facing Arabic drama in Egypt today. To this has been added an Appendix containing the resolutions and recommendations of The Arabic Theatre Conference, held in Damascus in 1973, under the auspices of the Organization of Education, Culture and Sciences, of The Arab League.

Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253209733
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Drama written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations of 12 Arabic plays written and produced during the past thirty years.

Author : Farouk Abdel Wahab
Publisher : Minneapolis : Bibliotheca Islamica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Egyptian Drama written by Farouk Abdel Wahab and published by Minneapolis : Bibliotheca Islamica. This book was released on 1974 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an English translation of four plays: 1. The Sultan's Dilemma, by Tawfīq al-Hạkīm ; 2. The New Arrival, by Mikhāʼīl Rūmān ; 3. A Journey outside Wall, by Rashād Rushdī ; 4. The Farfoors, by Yūsuf Idrīs.

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521331975
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature written by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Mahmoud Flayeh Ali Gemeián Al-shetaiwi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Western Drama Upon Modern Egyptian Drama written by Mahmoud Flayeh Ali Gemeián Al-shetaiwi and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles William Richard Long
Publisher : Ithaca Press (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tawfiq Al Hakim, Playwright of Egypt written by Charles William Richard Long and published by Ithaca Press (GB). This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748696539
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Literature written by Paul Starkey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present

Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774165926
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Tawfiq Al-Hakim written by Denys Johnson-Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame as a playwright is given prominence. Of the more than seventy plays he wrote, The Sultan's Dilemma, dealing with a historical subject in an appealingly light-hearted manner, is perhaps the best known; it appears in the extended edition of Norton's World Masterpieces and was broadcast on the old Home Service of the BBC. The other full-length play included here, The Tree Climber, is one that reveals al-Hakim's openness to outside influences in this case, the absurdist mode of writing. Of the two one-act plays in this collection, The Donkey Market shows his deftness at turning a traditional folk tale into a hilarious stage comedy. Tawfiq al-Hakim produced several of the earliest examples of the novel in Arabic; included in this volume is an extract from his best known work in that genre, the delightful Diary of a Country Prosecutor, in which he draws on his own experience as a public prosecutor in the Egyptian countryside. Three of the many short stories he published are also included, as well as an extract from The Prison of Life, an autobiography in which Tawfiq al-Hakim writes with commendable frankness about himself. Contents: Introduction by Denys Johnson-Davies, The Sultan's Dilemma (full-length play), The Tree Climber (full-length play), The Donkey Market (one-act play), The Song of Death (one-act play), Diary of a Country Prosecutor (extract from the novel), Miracles for Sale (short story), The Prison of Life (extract from the autobiography), Azrael the Barber (short story), Satan Triumphs (short story).