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Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 125–140

Chapter 7
“Such a transformation!” Shakespeare remade

Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Richard III, an Arab Tragedy

Article outline
  • Texts’ dynamic mobility and the hermeneutics of adaptation
  • Cultural encounters: Challenges to overcome
  • The dialectics of adaptation
  • From Richard III to Richard III, an Arab Tragedy: New significations
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.08alm
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