Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia

By Poonam Trivedi

Book Overview

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 worlds of Asian theatre languages, considering stagings in Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415636671
• ISBN13: 9780415636674
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"