From Pretext to Post-Text: Shakespeare Plays of Sulayman Al-Bassam
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Shakespeare’s work is often adapted to make a political point that refers to geographically distant present-day contexts. In a sense, the Shakespearean play becomes a pretext or alibi enabling the new work to discuss socio-political issues under cover of the former’s literary prestige. The Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam has adapted three of Shakespeare’s plays in order to explore such issues pertaining to the Middle East. The last of these plays ‘The Speaker’s Progress’ deals with hopes and expectations following the Arab Spring of 2011. After considering this play and its implications, the paper goes on to suggest that, willy-nilly, Al-Bassam’s trilogy of plays—like other mediated work—becomes less of a vehicle for displaying and commenting on uncomfortable home-truths and more of an outlet for a larger post-textual literary turn.
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Shakespeare’s work is often adapted to make a political point that refers to geographically distant present-day contexts. In a sense, the Shakespearean play becomes a pretext or alibi enabling the new work to discuss socio-political issues under cover of the former’s literary prestige. The Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam has adapted three of Shakespeare’s plays in order to explore such issues pertaining to the Middle East. The last of these plays ‘The Speaker’s Progress’ deals with hopes and expectations following the Arab Spring of 2011. After considering this play and its implications, the paper goes on to suggest that, willy-nilly, Al-Bassam’s trilogy of plays—like other mediated work—becomes less of a vehicle for displaying and commenting on uncomfortable home-truths and more of an outlet for a larger post-textual literary turn.
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