Poetics, politics and protest in Arab theatre : the bitter cup and the holy rain /

Writing from a socio-historical point of view, the author surveys and discusses the popular theatrical phenomena in the Arab world from the Hellenic period to the beginning of the 21st century. He notes the Eastern carnivalesque folk sources and the tendency toward comedy rather than tragedy.

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Ḥamdān, Masʻūd
Formatua: Liburua
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Argitaratua: Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2006.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index. 
505 0 |a 1. Theatrical genres and the carnivalesque : art of the theatre -- 2. Theatre in the Arab World : the historical background -- 3. The early comedies of Durayd Lahham and Nihad Qal'i : birth pangs of late satire -- 4. When a gay rogue grows to be a tragic fool : the carnivalesque satires. 
520 |a Writing from a socio-historical point of view, the author surveys and discusses the popular theatrical phenomena in the Arab world from the Hellenic period to the beginning of the 21st century. He notes the Eastern carnivalesque folk sources and the tendency toward comedy rather than tragedy. 
650 0 |a Arabic drama  |z Syria  |x History and criticism.  |9 1006 
650 0 |a Political plays, Arabic  |z Syria  |x History and criticism.  |9 1007 
650 6 |a Théâtre syrien  |x Histoire et critique.  |9 1008 
650 7 |a Arabic drama.  |9 1009 
650 7 |a Political plays, Arabic.  |9 1010 
650 7 |a Politisches Theater  |9 1011 
650 1 7 |a Toneel.  |9 247 
650 1 7 |a Politieke aspecten.  |9 1012 
651 7 |a Syria.  |9 1013 
651 7 |a Syrien  |9 1014 
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651 7 |a Arabisch.  |9 1016 
648 7 |a Geschichte 1974-1993  |9 1017 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Ḥamdān, Masʻūd.  |t Poetics, politics and protest in Arab theatre.  |d Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2006  |w (OCoLC)607779607 
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