Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia

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Title:

Author:

Trivedi, Poonam, 1949-

ISBN:

9780415992404

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Physical Description:

x, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 2

Routledge studies in Shakespeare; 2.

Contents:

Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia : an introduction / Poonam Trivedi -- Other Shakespeares in Asia : an overview / James Brandon -- Asian theatres, Mnouchkine, and Shakespeare : the search for a theatrical form / Brian Singleton -- Shakespeare and the Indian image(nary) : embod(y)ment in versions of a Midsummer Night's Dream / Poonam Trivedi -- "What, has this thing appear'd again tonight?" : re-playing Shakespeares on the Japanese stage / Minami Ryuta -- Fooling with Lear : a performance history of Suzuki Tadashi's King Lear (1984-2006) / Ian Carruthers -- Six people in search of "To be or not to be..." : Hamlet's soliloquay in six Chinese productions and the metamorphosis of Shakespeare performance on the Chinese stage / Li Ruru -- Is this Shakespeare? Inoue Hidenori's adaptations of Shakespeare / Yoshihara Yukari -- From proscenium to paddy fields : Utpal Dutt's Shakespeare Jatra / Tapati Gupta -- An never the twain shall meet? Shakespeare and Philippine performance traditions / Judy Celine Ick -- The stages 'occupied by Shakespeare' : intercultural performance and the search for 'Korean-ness' in Postcolonial Korea / Kim Moran -- Shakespeare in the shadows : cultural alienation, politics, and Eddin Khoo's shadow puppet adaptation of Macbeth / Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah and C.S. Lim -- The peripheral body of empire : Shakespearean adaptations and Taiwan's geopolitics / Wu Peichen -- "No world without verona walls"? Shakespeare in the provincial cultural marketplace / Alexander C.Y. Huang -- Dancing to Shakespeare : crossing genre and gender in the tragedies / Paromita Chakravarti and Swati Ganguly -- "Living in a different house" : a Gambuh Macbeth in Bali / John Emigh -- "O heavy lightness, o serious vanity" : camping Romeo and Juliet in Postcolonial Taiwan / Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei.

Personal Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Stage history-Asia.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Appreciation-Asia.

Subject Term:

Theater -- Asia.

East and West.

Added Author:

Trivedi, Poonam, 1949-

Minami, Ryuta.

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Summary

This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturation -- of the Western Shakespeare into the gestural, symbolic, stylized, or ritualized worlds of Asian theatre languages. It examines this interface in aesthetic, theatrical, cultural and political terms, looking at key issues in intercultural performance, how it re-configures the text, genre and gender and how it can intervene in the shaping of ethnicity, identity and postcoloniality. Contributors examine how differing cultures negotiate such encounters, and the implications of this worldwide re-playing for Shakespeare's theatre. Focusing specifically on the work of major directors in the central and emerging areas of Asia -- Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines -- the chapters show how performing Shakespeare in Asia not only revitalizes indigenous theatre forms, but generates an alternate cultural capital which is exploited in the global market.