The Israeli film Strangers (Erez Tadmor/ Guy Nattiv, 2007) loosely integrates elements from Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet and uses the archetype of the star-crossed lovers to approach the Middle East conflict. This paper questions how the original structure, which relies on a rivalry between two identical parties, is transposed to a setting where the power relations are marked by inequality. By examining the political meanings and the Orientalist overtones that are embedded in the process of gendering Israel and Palestine through the protagonists, this paper argues that Strangers affirms Israel’s cultural and moral superiority and silences the structural violence of both the occupation and the dispossession of the Palestinians. Grante...
As long as Shakespeare’s great plays are there, there have been varied and ongoing adaptations of hi...
Dans Othello, Shakespeare fait en sorte que la nuit de la fugue d'Othello et de Desdémone coïncide a...
Looking at the stage history and literary afterlives of the two Venetian plays, Shaul Bassi suggests...
The Israeli film Strangers (Erez Tadmor/ Guy Nattiv, 2007) loosely integrates elements from Shakespe...
Is Romeo and Juliet relevant to a description of the Middle-East conflict? This is the question rais...
Is Romeo and Juliet relevant to a description of the Middle-East conflict? This is the question rais...
There is a vibrant tradition of performing William Shakespeare’s playtexts cross-, multi-, and trans...
Movie adaptations of dramatic works have always been very popular. Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar ...
This paper examines the ways in which Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet explores t...
This paper attempts to trace how Shakespeare‘s Othello reflects the deeprooted Eurocentric ideology...
The logical preoccupation with how to represent Shylock after the Holocaust too often prevents addre...
More than four hundred years after his death Shakespeare is still the most performed playwright in t...
The essay explores of how Arab-American and Arab-Muslim playwrights have reacted to the growth of Is...
El intelectual palestino-estadounidense Edward Wadie Said defendió la creación de un único Estado se...
This paper follows the critical lines of feminism and psychoanalysis to argue that Othello is a conf...
As long as Shakespeare’s great plays are there, there have been varied and ongoing adaptations of hi...
Dans Othello, Shakespeare fait en sorte que la nuit de la fugue d'Othello et de Desdémone coïncide a...
Looking at the stage history and literary afterlives of the two Venetian plays, Shaul Bassi suggests...
The Israeli film Strangers (Erez Tadmor/ Guy Nattiv, 2007) loosely integrates elements from Shakespe...
Is Romeo and Juliet relevant to a description of the Middle-East conflict? This is the question rais...
Is Romeo and Juliet relevant to a description of the Middle-East conflict? This is the question rais...
There is a vibrant tradition of performing William Shakespeare’s playtexts cross-, multi-, and trans...
Movie adaptations of dramatic works have always been very popular. Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar ...
This paper examines the ways in which Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet explores t...
This paper attempts to trace how Shakespeare‘s Othello reflects the deeprooted Eurocentric ideology...
The logical preoccupation with how to represent Shylock after the Holocaust too often prevents addre...
More than four hundred years after his death Shakespeare is still the most performed playwright in t...
The essay explores of how Arab-American and Arab-Muslim playwrights have reacted to the growth of Is...
El intelectual palestino-estadounidense Edward Wadie Said defendió la creación de un único Estado se...
This paper follows the critical lines of feminism and psychoanalysis to argue that Othello is a conf...
As long as Shakespeare’s great plays are there, there have been varied and ongoing adaptations of hi...
Dans Othello, Shakespeare fait en sorte que la nuit de la fugue d'Othello et de Desdémone coïncide a...
Looking at the stage history and literary afterlives of the two Venetian plays, Shaul Bassi suggests...