Abdulla Al-Dabbagh (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla. “The Oriental Framework of Romeo and Juliet.” The Comparatist 24 (May 2000): 64-82.
[In the essay below, Al-Dabbagh examines the way in which Romeo and Juliet is influenced by Arabic culture and concepts, noting that the play's use of imagery related to light and dark reflects the conceptions of good and evil found in Islamic Sufism.]
There has always been a tendency in literary and cultural scholarship to barricade oneself behind narrow specificities and a...
Source: Shakespearean Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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