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Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre: The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain

Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre: The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryTheater History

ISBN10: 1845192249
ISBN13: 9781845192242
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Sep 1 2013
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book highlights the so far unappreciated merit of the Syrian playwrights Durayd Lahham and Muhammad al-Maghout, whose plays are representative of the new wave of Arab theatrical realisation in general and Syrian protest plays in particular. 'Ghawwar', the famous character type created by Lahham, combines art with politics, the past with modern times, lower class-consciousness and identity with Pan-Arab nationalism, and East with West. He also symbolizes a poetical link between the 'bitter cup' of a miserable present and the 'holy rain' of a better future.

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