Introduction: Terror: Identity, Freedom, Symbolism 1. "Danger from the east unto the west": The Tragedy of Comedy 2. "To me it is a prison": Freedom and Principled Violence 3. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in it": Performing Ideology and Power 4. "As he was ambitious, I slew him": Identity and Assassination Epilogue: Life Imitates Art
Islam Issa is Reader in Literature and History at Birmingham City University, UK. He is a multi-award-winning writer, curator, and broadcaster. His books include Milton in the Arab-Muslim World and he has presented such documentaries as Cleopatra and Me: In Search of a Lost Queen.
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generation. Fluent and equable, original and sage, his work floods
the topics he turns to with startling, exhilarating light.'Ewan
Fernie, Fellow and Chair, The Shakespeare Institute'I have long
been a serious fan of Islam Issa and his fresh, open and
unflinching perspective on Shakespeare. The illuminating clarity he
brings to Shakespeare’s resonance and difficulty across cultures
and histories is making an essential contribution to
twenty-first-century Shakespeareans.'Erica Whyman OBE, Deputy
Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company'Islam Issa has a
profound understanding of the relationship between culture and our
intellectual, social, and political values. His groundbreaking work
has important significance for the development of international
understanding and for the furtherance of humane values.'Sir Stanley
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