Books by M. M. Badawi

This book, originally published in 1988, traces the development of Arabic drama from its beginnings in Lebanon in the mid-nineteenth century to its maturity reached in Egypt in the second and third decades of the twentieth. The book is written in a manner accessible to the non-Arabist as no knowledge of Arabic is presupposed.

Dr Badawi provides a lucid analysis of the elements of Coleridge's criticism of Shakespeare, demonstrating the relationship with his criticism generally, and bringing out its originality, its validity and its influence on our concepts of poetic language, dramatic form and our response to the whole medium.

This book is the first critical survey of the development and achievements of Arabic poetry over the last century and a half. It ranges over the entire Arabic-speaking world and includes a discussion of the work of poets who emigrated to America. No knowledge of Arabic is presupposed, as all the versa is given in English translation.

This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. A discussion of the work of Tawfiq al-Hakim is followed by an examination of the less experimental plays of his successors, Mahmud Taymur, Bakathir and Fathi Radwan.