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Shakespeare in Asia
Contemporary Performance

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Editors:
Dennis Kennedy, Trinity College, Dublin
Yong Li Lan, National University of Singapore

Dennis Kennedy, Li Lan Yong, John Russell Brown, Daniel Gallimore, Fei Chunfang, Sun Huizhu, Richard Burt, Minami Ryuta, Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto, Suematsu Michiko, Li Ruru, Shen Lin, John Phillips, Rustom Bharucha

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Date Published: January 2014
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781107693739

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Addressing both theoretical and practical questions surrounding Shakespeare in contemporary Asia, this book asks why Shakespeare has been of use in these vast regions of the world that have no need to call on him. By investigating some of the ways Shakespeare has been reinvented and deployed, the study notes the differences between standard western approaches and those that can be seen in Japan, China, India, and South East Asia. The contributors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and traditions, West and East, and present distinctive, and sometimes conflicting, views on topics as diverse as speaking Shakespeare in Japanese, the importation and exportation of Shakespeare in Asia, and the uses of the English national poet in Indian film and Japanese popular culture. The debates which occur within the book highlight the diversity of production and reception for the world's most popular playwright, whose work is now global cultural capital.
- The debates within the book, between chapters, reveal the complicated position of Shakespeare in Asia
- Contributors are from East and West, and are both established and emergent scholars from theatrical, literary and cinematic backgrounds
- Substantial introductions to each section provide key links between topics
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'This collection of essays is an invigorating conversation on its subject … In the best sense, this is a working collection, which offers readers inviting opportunities for further reflection, not least in the far-flung work of its own participants.' Tom Bishop, Shakespeare Quarterly
'Fresh, illuminating and well-structured, Kennedy and Lan's volume is more than a mere welcome and an interesting contribution to the field of Shakespeare in Asia, and, thanks to its added political, theoretical and ideological dimensions, it will become an indispensable reference for future research.' Sederi Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies
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- Date Published: January 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107693739
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: why Shakespeare? Dennis Kennedy and Li Lan Yong
Part I. Voice and Body:
2. Shakespeare and the Natyasastra John Russell Brown
3. Speaking Shakespeare in Japanese: voicing the foreign Daniel Gallimore
4. Shakespeare and Beijing opera: two cases of appropriation Fei Chunfang and Sun Huizhu
Part II. Shakespeare in Asian Popular Cultures:
5. All that remains of Shakespeare in Indian film Richard Burt
6. Shakespeare for Japanese popular culture Minami Ryuta
7. Shakespeare's villains in Japan Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto
Part III. Transacting Cultures:
8. Import/export: Japanizing Shakespeare Suematsu Michiko
9. Millennium Shashibiya: Shakespeare in the Chinese-speaking worlds Li Ruru
10. Ong Keng Sen's intercultural Shakespeare Yong Li Lan
Part IV. Intercultural Politics:
11. What use Shakespeare? China and globalization Shen Lin
12. Shakespeare and the question of intercultural performance John Phillips
13. Foreign Asia/foreign Shakespeare: dissenting notes on New Asian interculturality, postcoloniality and re-colonization Rustom Bharucha.
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Editors
Dennis Kennedy, Trinity College, Dublin
Dennis Kennedy's books include The Spectator and the Spectacle: Audiences in Modernity and Postmodernity, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance, Foreign Shakespeare, and Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre. He has twice been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the USA, twice won the Freedley Award for theatre history, received the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award at the University of Pittsburgh, the Berkeley Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin, and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea. His own plays have been performed in New York, London, and many other places, and he has frequently worked as a dramaturg and director in professional theatres.
Yong Li Lan, National University of Singapore
Li Lan Yong is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.
Contributors
Dennis Kennedy, Li Lan Yong, John Russell Brown, Daniel Gallimore, Fei Chunfang, Sun Huizhu, Richard Burt, Minami Ryuta, Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto, Suematsu Michiko, Li Ruru, Shen Lin, John Phillips, Rustom Bharucha