caa a22 4500 388109343 CHVBK 20180307125348.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300019143 doi S0307883300019143 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300019143 Haring-Smith Tori Encoding Female Sexual Desire on the Egyptian Stage [Elektronische Daten] [Tori Haring-Smith] When sexuality is a formally censored topic on the stage, how can one represent this fundamental human desire? For centuries, Western playwrights have used sex in highly coded language so that it is simultaneously acceptable and titillating. But Nehad Gad, one of Egypt's most prominent writers in the late twentieth century, and the only Egyptian woman to have her plays translated into English for publication, devised her own method to mention that taboo subject. She filled her plays with the desire for commercial goods—an important topic in this increasingly materialistic country. But for her characters, men and women alike, the desire to acquire and exchange commercial items is also a means of expressing sexual desire. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 276-280 0307-8833 24:3<276 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300019143 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300019143 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haring-Smith Tori NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 276-280 0307-8833 24:3<276 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge