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An obedient daughter, a scorned lover, a raving madwoman—each of these epithets is an appropriate description of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Character studies of Hamlet range from completely passing over her character to intense psychoanalyses of Op…

This study traces the appropriations of Shakespeare's Hamlet in modern Arabic literature and Arab public culture. Drawing on methods from anthropology, literary history, and performance studies, I show how Hamlet came to the Arab world through a "global kaleidoscope" of models a…