Of Kings and Clowns

ISBN-13: 9781032360928 / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str.

Tiran Manucharyan

Opis

This book examines the transformations Egyptian theatre has undergone since 1967.

Spis treści

Preface

Transliteration of Arabic      

Acknowledgements  

Introduction             

Chapter 1: Tamasruh: Between Theatricalisation and Carnivalesque           

Chapter 2: ‘Towards an Egyptian Theatre’: Yusuf Idris       

Chapter 3: Theatre as Its Protagonist: Abul-ʿEla El-Salamouny    

Chapter 4: ‘The Art of Cunning’: Lenin El-Ramly 

Chapter 5: The Carnivalisation of Silence: Fathia El-ʿAssal           

Chapter 6: Of Times and Spaces      

Chapter 7: Theatre and the Revolution      

Conclusions: Carnival Framed in Theatre  

Further Reading in English 

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Tiran Manucharyan is Associate Lecturer in Arabic at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.