Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare

An Anthology, 1987-2007
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-92992-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Global Shakespeares

Shakespeare’s tragedies have been performed in the Sinophone world for over two centuries. Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear are three of the most frequently adapted plays. They have been re-imagined as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, avant-garde theatre, and experimental theatre in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan. This ground-breaking anthology features the first English translations of seven influential adaptations from 1987 to 2007 across a number of traditional and modern performance genres in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Each of the book's three sections offers a pair of two contrasting versions of each tragedy - in two distinct genres - for comparative analysis. This anthology is an indispensable tool for the teaching and research of Sinophone theatre's engagement with Western classics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joubin, Alexa Alice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Existentialist Questions in Post-Socialist China and Post-Martial-Law Taiwan

Chapter 1. Hamlet as Political Theatre in Beijing, 1990, trans. Steven L. Riep and Ronald Kimmons and introduced by Riep

Part 2. Bewitched by Kunqu Opera and Avant-Garde Theatre

Chapter 2. An Operatic Macbeth in Shanghai, 1987 / 2008, trans. Siyuan Liu and introduced by Joubin

Chapter 3. A Feminist Macbeth in Tainan, 2007, trans. and introduced by Yilin Chen

Part 3. Self-Identities in Traditional and Experimental Jingju Opera

Chapter 4. A Confucian King Lear in Shanghai, 1995, trans. Dongshin Chang and introduced by Joubin

Chapter 5. A Buddhist King Lear in Taipei, 2001, trans. and introduced by Alexa Alice Joubin

Chapter 6. Theatrical Bricolage of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello in Beijing, 1986, trans. and introduced by Lia Wen-ching Liang

Über Autor(innen)

Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she co-founded and co-directs the Digital Humanities Institute. Her books include Shakespeare and East Asia (2021), Race (2019), and the co-edited volumes Cinematic Allusions to Shakespeare: International Appropriation (2022), Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance (2018), and Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (2014).