Beckett as Muse for Egyptian Playwrights (original) (raw)

Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd hui 31(2):219-233, 2019

Abstract

In 1962, Beckett’s theatre debuted in Egypt and, ever since, it has inspired Egyptian play- wrights. This paper examines how two Egyptian writers engaged with Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, as an example of both Beckett’s work and so-named absurdist theater, reveal- ing it to have more potential for political and social engagement than traditionally understood. Masir Sursar [Fate of a Cockroach] by Tawfiq Al-Hakim and Musafir Layl [Night Traveller] by Salah Abdul Saboor make a good case study of these effects.

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