Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula

Since the turn of the millennium, the Arabian Peninsula has produced a remarkable series of adaptations of Shakespeare. These include a 2007 production of Much Ado About Nothing , set in Kuwait in 1898; a 2011 performance in Sharjah of Macbeth , set in 9th-century Arabia; a 2013 Yemeni adaptation of The Merchant of Venice , in which the Shylock figure is not Jewish; and Hamlet , Get Out of My Head , a one-man show about an actor’s fraught response to the Danish prince, which has been touring the