TY  - BOOK
AU  - Badawi,Muhammad Mustafa
TI  - Modern Arabic drama in Egypt
SN  - 9780521020732 (pbk.)
AV  - PJ8211 .B33 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Cambridge.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Arabic drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Egypt
N1  - Originally published: 1987; Includes bibliography (p. 231-239) and index; 1. Introduction; 2. Tawfiq al-Hakim; 2. Al-Hakim's successors; 4. Post-revolution drama: the new wave of dramatists; 5. Verse drama; 6. Epilogue
N2  - This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. A discussion of the work of Tawfiq al-Hakim is followed by an examination of the less experimental plays of his successors, Mahmud Taymur, Bakathir and Fathi Radwan
ER  -