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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Main Author: Potenza, Daniela (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Arabica
Year: 2021, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-69
Further subjects:B Bertolt Brecht
B EGYPTIAN THEATRE
B Circle
B pre-Modern Arabic drama
B Alfred Faraǧ
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