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Zakarya Bezdoode

Zakarya Bezdoode

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 2315
Faculty: Faculty of Language and Literature
Address: Faculty of Language and Literature
Phone: داخلی 2475

Research

Title
Iranian Hamlet: Iranian Cultural Elements in Mohammad Charmsheer's Adaptation of Hamlet
Type
Presentation
Keywords
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Adaptation, Charmsheer, Iranian Culture
Year
2014
Researchers Zakarya Bezdoode

Abstract

Mohammad Chrmsheer in his extreme adaptation of Hamlet has endeavored to include so many Iranian cultural elements that it is difficult to say the play is not Iranian. It is preferably called extreme in that it has lost its western and English backgrounds and has turned into an Iranian work of art. These elements make a spectrum from language through music to some technical devices like costume, light and sound effects. In this paper the objective of the present author is to delineate how Charmsheer has brought changes tp the play thus to argue that Charmsheer has Iranicized Hamlet in two ways: emphasizing those aspects and motifs of the play that overlap Iranian culture and projecting the Iranian culture into the play.