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Author:   Sirkku Aaltonen (University of Vaasa, Finland) ,  Areeg Ibrahim (Helwan University, Egypt)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781138946446

ISBN 10:   1138946443
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   11 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction Areeg Ibrahim and Sirkku Aaltonen Part I. Intercultural Rewriting 1. Perspiring Translators, Rowdy Audiences and Ignorant Women: Narratives of the History of Egyptian Theatre Sirkku Aaltonen 2. Politics of Choice and Cultural Representation in Translating Egyptian Drama Between Two Revolutions (1952-2011) Areeg Ibrahim 3. Tawfiq al-Hakim as the Representative Egyptian Dramatist in the West Marvin Carlson 4. Performing and Rewriting Solitaire between Languages and Cultures: A Practitioner’s Testimonial Dalia Basiouny Part II. Interlingual Rewriting 5. Allusion in Three Translations of Hamlet into Arabic Omaya Khalifa 6. Translation and Dramaturgy in Egyptian Performances of King Lear Mohamed Samir Al-Khatib (translated from Arabic by Mona Khattab) 7. On Translating Shakespeare into Arabic: A Translator’s Testimonial Mohamed Enani Part III. Intertextual Rewriting 8. Theatre-making and Theatre Translation in Turn-of-the-century Egypt: Theatricalizing the Theatre Field in Muhammad Taymur’s The Trial of the Playwrights Sameh Hanna 9. From Spectators to ""Spect-Actors."" All Tahrir’s a Stage Heba El-Abbadi & Sally Hammouda 10. Egyptian Realities on Stage and in Society Nehad Selaiha Part IV. Intermedial Rewriting 11. Dramatizing Short Stories. Yussef El Guindi’s Rewriting of Salwa Bakr’s ""That Beautiful Undiscovered Voice,"" and ""Thirty-one Beautiful Green Trees"" Salwa Rashad Amin 12. It is not Just Phonetics and Aristocrats, it is Sexuality and Politics. The Adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion in the Egyptian Theatre Wessam Elmeligi 13. A Documentary in the Making. Live on Stage: A Century and a Half of Theatre in Egypt Mona Mikhail Afterword"

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Sirkku Aaltonen is Professor of English, Docent in Translation Studies, and Head of the English Studies Unit at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Areeg Ibrahim is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Helwan University, Egypt. She is on the editorial board of the Arab Stages Journal and the Treasurer of The Egyptian Circle for Genre Studies and Comparative Poetics (ECGSCP).

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