Katherine Hennessey
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
Shylock in the Ḥaḍramawt?: Adaptations of Shakespeare on the Yemeni Stage.
Articolo della rivista, Anno III, numero 5, giugno 2013
Yemen and Shakespeare are not commonly associated with each other, yet a surprisingly rich and idiosyncratic history of Yemeni Shakespeare productions exists. This article traces that history, to contextualize a recent Yemeni adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, in which Portia appears as a masked Arab warrior, and Shylock as [...]