Description
Book SynopsisThis volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts.
Trade Review“An interesting and commendable contribution to Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. Tatlow has a cogent, complex, and distinctive point of view.”—Hugh H. Grady, author of
Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to Millennium“This work by Antony Tatlow is timely, original, and provocatively and lucidly written. Its theoretical and analytic sophistication makes it a welcome exemplum of East-West comparative study—one that rings with the authority of a seasoned eyewitness no less than that of an erudite thinker.”—Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsPreface
Prologue
1. Reading the Intercultural: Cultures of Reading
2. Intercultural Signs: Textual Anthropology
3. Desire, Laughter, and the Social Unconscious
4. Historicizing the Unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean Farce
5.
Coriolanus and the Historical Text
6.
Macbeth in Kunju Opera
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
