Film Adaptations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet on the Arab Egyptian Screen
This article examines the adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1597) in four Egyptian films: al-Badāwiyah al-Ḥasnā’ (A Beautiful Bedouin Woman, 1947); Ḥassan wa Na‘īmah (Hassan and Naimah, 1959); al-‘Alamein (Two Icons, 1965); and Qiṣat al-Ḥai al-Garbī (West Side Story, 1979). The Egyptian screen...