Al-Dabbagh (English literature, United Arab Emirates U.) collects seven papers he has written and published over the course of two decades exploring Shakespeare's relationship with the Orient.
He covers Shakespeare's orientalism and the reversal of stereotypes; the oriental framework of Romeo and Juliet; his humanism, Hamlet, King Lear, and Sufism; the Arabian Nights, Shakespeare and
money; his Roman world; and the success and failure of early Hamlet criticism. There is no index. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
