Samia Al-Shayban
Biographic Data
| ID | 5663682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samia Al-Shayban |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samia |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Shayban |
| SIGNATURE | AL-SHAYBAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King Saud University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3229-0834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crime and Punishment in William Davenant’s Macbeth
The article challenges the dominant critical perception which assumes that Davenant’s Macbeth is a simple adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Against this reading, and in harmony with Barthes’s theory of the text, Macbeth is here read as a dynamic and independent dramatic agent rather than a copy of a superior text. Seen in this perspective, Davenant’s Macbeth emerges as a manifestation of the Roman Stoics’ moral perception of ambition with its …
The False Dmitry and James the Old Pretender
The British dramatist Mary Pix’s (1666–1709) play The Czar of Muscovy (1701) has received limited and inconsistent critical attention compared to her other plays. This paper offers a fresh analysis of the play, which depicts the rule of the Russian pretender Dmitry Ivanovic, which lasted from 1605 to 1606 when he was killed in an uprising. The reading centralizes the history of false Dmitry during the Time of Troubles and his dramatic role as a f…
Realms of the Dead and the Living
Ideologically, Fielding's Author's Farce is read as an attack on Sir Robert Walpole and his corrupt government. Dramatically, it is perceived as a play with two separate plots, a factor that denies it any literary merits. This paper attempt to read Fielding's play as a disguised multifaceted attack against King George II of England who is accused of deliberately corrupting London' s literary scene to secure the Hanoverian hegemony. Fielding achie…
Rooted Patriarchy in Bell in Campo
Margaret Cavendish’s Bell in Campo (1662) gives marginalized women the space not only to voice their concerns but most importantly to act out their aspirations although they fail to achieve their g
Davenant’s The Siege of Rhodes
Davenant’s The Siege of Rhodes
Realms of the Dead and the Living
Ideologically, Fielding's Author's Farce is read as an attack on Sir Robert Walpole and his corrupt government. Dramatically, it is perceived as a play with two separate plots, a factor that denies it any literary merits. This paper attempt to read Fielding's play as a disguised multifaceted attack against King George II of England who is accused of deliberately corrupting London' s literary scene to secure the Hanoverian hegemony. Fielding achie…
Rooted Patriarchy in Bell in Campo
Margaret Cavendish’s Bell in Campo (1662) gives marginalized women the space not only to voice their concerns but most importantly to act out their aspirations although they fail to achieve their g
Crime and Punishment in William Davenant’s Macbeth
The article challenges the dominant critical perception which assumes that Davenant’s Macbeth is a simple adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Against this reading, and in harmony with Barthes’s theory of the text, Macbeth is here read as a dynamic and independent dramatic agent rather than a copy of a superior text. Seen in this perspective, Davenant’s Macbeth emerges as a manifestation of the Roman Stoics’ moral perception of ambition with its …
The False Dmitry and James the Old Pretender
The British dramatist Mary Pix’s (1666–1709) play The Czar of Muscovy (1701) has received limited and inconsistent critical attention compared to her other plays. This paper offers a fresh analysis of the play, which depicts the rule of the Russian pretender Dmitry Ivanovic, which lasted from 1605 to 1606 when he was killed in an uprising. The reading centralizes the history of false Dmitry during the Time of Troubles and his dramatic role as a f…
Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Drama (2 works) · Dramatization (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)