Table of Contents

Theatrical Genres and the Carnivalesque: Art of the Theatre; Theatre in the Arab World: The Historical Background; The Early Comedies of Durayd Lahham and Nihad Qal'i: Birth Pangs of Late Satire; When a Gay Rogue Grows to be a Tragic Fool: The Carnivalesque Satires; Index.

About the Author

Mas'ud Hamdan is a writer and lecturer at the University of Haifa (Theatre and Arabic Literature departments). He is the recipient of The Landau Fund Prize & The Yitzhak Rabin Prize. He has published numerous articles on Arabic and Hebrew Literature and Theatre, a novelette, a collection of short stories, three poetry anthologies, three plays and a film.

Reviews

"An excellent contribution to the study of the dynamics of the Arab cultural system in modern times, especially against the background of the current limited research in the field..." -- Professor Reuven Snir, Dept. of Arabic Language & Literature, University of Haifa.