Shakespeare in Asia : contemporary performance / edited by Dennis Kennedy and Yong Li Lan.

General note: Includes index. Formatted contents note: Shakespeare and the Natyasastra / John Russell Brown -- Speaking Shakespeare in Japanese: voicing the foreign / Daniel Gallimore -- Shakespeare and Beijing opera: two cases of appropriation / Fei Chunfang and Sun Huizhu -- All that remains of Shakespeare in Indian film / Richard Burt -- Shakespeare for Japanese popular culture: Shoho Manga, Takarazuka and Twelfth night / Minami Ryuta -- Shakespeare's villains in Japan / Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto -- UK-SuSCL Import/export: Japanizing Shakespeare / Suematsu Michiko -- Millenium Shashibiya: Shakespeare in the Chinese-speaking world / Li Ruru -- Shakespeare here and elsewhere: Ong Keng Sen's intercultural Shakespeare / Yong Li Lan -- What use Shakespeare? China and globalization / Shen Lin -- Shakespeare and the question of intercultural performance / John W. P. Phillips -- Foreign Asia/foreign Shakespeare: dissenting notes on New Asian interculturality, postcoloniality and re-colonization / Rustom Bharuchu UK-SuSCL Summary, etc: Contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds debate how and why Shakespeare has been used and reinvented in contemporary Asia. Target audience: Specialized.