Shakespeare and Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367664527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Jonathan Locke Hart

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Shakespeare and Asia brings together innovative scholars from Asia or with Asian connections to explore these matters of East-West and global contexts then and now. The collection ranges from interpretations of Shakespeare’s plays to studies of film, opera or scholarship in Asia.

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Jonathan Locke Hart

Introduction

Jonathan Locke Hart

I: On Shakespeare’s Plays

1. Shakespeare as a Historicist: His Potential Significance in China







Wang Ning












2. Splitting heres: Shakespeare and the Global Supermarket, here, there, then, and now







Simon C. Estok












3. Reading the Matured Shakespeare in Taiwan







Francis K. H. So












4. How to Crack the Ethical Enigma of Sphinx?







Wei Xiaofei












5. Meta-dramatizing Shakespeare: Playwrights as Code Readers in "Lear is Here," and "Cleopatra and Her Fools"







I-Chun Wang












6. Carnival over Time: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night







Zhao Hua












7. The Window Crossing Spaces: Triple Spaces of the Window in Much Ado about Nothing







Yun-fang Dai












8. Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the State and Geography of Otherness







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II: Shakespeare, the Novel, Opera, Adaptations and Film












9. William Shakespeare in the Life and Works of Charles Dickens







Kuo-jung Chen












10. Hamlet in Chinese Opera and the Loss of Ambiguity







Hao Liu









11. The Ghost of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Féng Xiǎogāng’s The Banquet and Sherwood Hu’s Prince of the Himalayas







Walter S. H. Lim












12. Is Shakespeare "Translatable"? Cinematic Adaptations by Kozintsev, Kurosawa, and Feng Xiaogang







King-Kok Cheung












13. Some Adaptations of Shakespeare in Pakistan







Samina Akhtar












14. Reconsidering Empire as Metaphor in Shakespeare Wallah







Jane Wong Yeang Chui












15. Adaptation as Translation: The Bard in Bombay

Asma Sayed

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Jonathan Locke Hart (Ph.D., University of Toronto, English; Ph.D, University of Cambridge, History) Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, is Chair Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU); Director, Centre for Creative Writing and Literary Culture and Translation, SJTU; Core Faculty, Comparative Literature, Western University; Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has written over 20 books and edited others and contributed book chapters (publishers include OUP, CUP, Champion, Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge). With Routledge, he published his first book in 1994 and had two edited collections appear in Routledge Revivals in 2014. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over 100 articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine, Peking, and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.