The Truth within a Circle: A Muḥabbaẓūna’s Play and Its Revival by Alfred Faraǧ
Abstract During his travels in Egypt, Edward William Lane attended “a low and ridiculous farce,” he reports, performed by the muḥabbaẓūna , before Muḥammad ʿAlī Bāšā. Lane described its plot and concluded that the farce was played before the Pasha to open his eyes to the conduct of the tax collector...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Arabica
Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-69 |
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Bertolt Brecht
B EGYPTIAN THEATRE B Circle B pre-Modern Arabic drama B Alfred Faraǧ |
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