Introduction¿
Katherine Hennessey and Margaret Litvin

PART I: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND TRANSLATION STRATEGIES

Chapter 1. Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet Tradition¿
Margaret Litvin¿

Chapter 2. Decommercialising Shakespeare: Mutran's Translation of Othello
Sameh F. Hannä

Chapter 3. On Translating Shakespeare's Sonnets into Arabic
Mohamed Enani

Chapter 4. The Quest for the Sonnet: The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic Poetry
Kamal Abu-Deeb

Chapter 5. Egypt between Two Shakespeare Quadricentennials 1964-2016: Reflective Remarks in Three Snapshots
Hazem Azmy

PART II: ADAPTATION AND PERFORMANCE

Chapter 6. The Taming of the Tigress: Fäima Rushdi and the First Performance of Shrew in Arabic
David C. Moberly

Chapter 7. The Tunisian Stage: Shakespeare's Part in Question
Rafik Darragi

Chapter 8. Beyond Colonial Tropes: Two Productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Palestine
Samer al-Saber

Chapter 9. Bringing Lebanon's Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alameddine's Appropriation of Shakespeare's Tragedies
Yousef Awad

Chapter 10. An Arabian Night with Swedish Direction: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Egypt and Sweden, 2003
Robert Lyons

Chapter 11. 'Rudely Interrupted': Shakespeare and Terrorism
Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey¿

Chapter 12. Othello in Oman: A¿mad al-Izki's Fusion of Shakespeare and Classical Arab Epic
Katherine Hennessey

Chapter 13. ¿Abd al-Räim Kamal's Dahsha: An Upper Egyptian Lear
Noha Mohamad Mohamad Ibraheem

Chapter 14. Ophelia Is Not Dead at 47: An Interview with Nabyl Lahlou
Khalid Amine

Margaret Litvin is associate professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her book Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost (Princeton UP, 2011), appeared in Soha Sebaie's Arabic translation in 2017, and she co-edited and co-translated the companion anthology Four Arab Hamlet Plays (2016), one play from which was recently produced at Cornell University. Her current work explores two areas of transregional cultural flows: Arab-Russian literary ties, and contemporary Arab/ic theatre for global audiences. She has been an ACLS Burkhardt Fellow in Uppsala, Sweden, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin.