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Arab-Russian literary ties and other adventures in culture

Mounir Abou Debs’ Hamlet

Posted on April 23, 2012 by ml

Just wanted to draw attention to

ImproBeirut‘s helpful comment on a much earlier post, alerting me to a photo just posted on the Mounir Abou Debs Facebook fan page:
“Check this link… you can find a picture from the 1967 production directed by Mounir Abou Debs of Hamlet, on the right hand side is Michel Nabaa along with Antoine Kerbage playing the king and Reda Khoury on the far right as Hamlet’s Mother.” https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151549577570366&set=a.10151549577540366.842085.70929910365&type=1&theater

Great! Now anyone feel like tracking down and examining Adonis’ translation?

New Hamlet-alluding Adonis collection

Posted on April 18, 2008 by ml

Adonis has a new poetry collection, just out this year, with a Hamlet-themed long poem in it. (Cover art is by Adonis as well.)

The poem is titled (slightly less decorously than the collection as a whole) “Calm down Hamlet, inhale Ophelia’s smell.” It was written in January 2006 (before the most recent Lebanon war, which he also writes about). On a very cursory first reading, not quite sure what it has to do with Hamlet (and it does not seem to be Adonis’ best work, not that I am any kind of expert).
More soon.