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Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Shakespeare and East Asia
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Oxford Shakespeare Topics
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Shakespeare and
East Asia
ALEXA ALICE JOUBIN
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Contents
ListofIllustrations xi
ANoteontheText xiii
Prologue:TheCulturalMeaningsofShakespeare
andAsiaToday 1
1. “Tounpath’dwaters,undream’dshores”:
SoundandSpectacle 22
2. “Ourtoilshallstrivetomend”:PoliticsofRemediation 63
3. An“isle . . . fullofnoises”:PolyphonicReception 106
4. “Dividedinthreeourkingdom”:Multilingualism
andDiaspora 142
Epilogue 187
Notes 195
Acknowledgments 225
Glossary 229
FurtherReading 239
AChronologyofShakespeareandEastAsia 245
Index 253
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Contents
Prologue 1
Plays:TwelfthNight,AsYouLikeIt,Hamlet
Media:theatricalfilmandcinematicstage
1. SoundandSpectacle 22
Play:Macbeth
MediaandGenres:Japanesesamuraifilm;Kabuki;Noh;
animefilm;Asian-Americantheatre
Directors:AkiraKurosawa,YukioNinagawa,SatoshiKon,
JohnR.Briggs
2. PoliticsofRemediation 63
Plays:RomeoandJuliet,Hamlet,KingLear,AMidsummer
Night’sDream
MediaandGenres:Americanfilm,Britishfilm,
British-Chinesetheatre,HongKongcomedyfilm,
Chinesewuxiaandkungfufilms,Tibetanfilm,
TaiwaneseBeijingopera,huajuparody
Directors:AnthonyChan,FengXiaogang,SherwoodHu,
WuHsing-kuo,LeeKuo-hsiu,MichaelAlmereyda,
EdgarWright
3. PolyphonicReception 106
Plays:KingLear,TheTempest,RomeoandJuliet,Hamlet,
TheTamingoftheShrew
MediaandGenres:Koreanperioddramafilm,transgender
performance,modernKoreantheatre,t’alch’um
masked-dancedrama,Britishreceptionoftouringtheatre
Directors:KimMyung-gon,LeeJoon-ik,OhTae-suk,
YukioNinagawa