Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia / edited by Poonam Trivedi and Minami Ryuta.

Formatted contents note: Other Shakespeare in Asia: an overview / James Brandon -- Asian Theatres, Mnouchkine and Shakespeare ... / Brian Singleton -- Shakespeare and the Indian image(nary): embod(y)ment in versions of A midsummer night's dream / Poonam Trivedi -- "What, has this thing appear'd again tonight?": replaying Shakespeares on the Japanese stage / Minami Ryuta -- Fooling with Lear: a performance of Suzuki's Tadashi's King Lear, 1984-2006 / Ian Carruthers -- Six people in search of "To be or not to be...": Hamlet's soliloquy in six Chinese productions ... / Li Ruru -- Is this Shakespeare?Inoue Hidenori's adapatations ... / Yoshihara Yukari -- From proscenium to paddy fields: Uptal Dutt's Shakespeare Jatra / Tapati Gupta. UK-SuSCL And never the twain shall meet? Shakespeare and Philippine performance traditions / Judy Celine Ick -- The stages "occupied by Shakespeare": intercultural performances and the search for "Korean-ness" in postcolonial Korea / Kim Moran -- Shakespeare in the shadows: cultural aleniation, politics and Eddin Khoo's shadow puppet adaptation of Macbeth / Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah and C.S. Lim -- The peripheral body of empire: Shakespearean adaptations and Taiwan's geopolitics / Wu Peichen. UK-SuSCL "No world without Verona walls"? Shakespeare in the provioncial cultural marketplace / Alexander C.Y. Huang -- Dancing to Shakespeare:crossing genre and gender in the Tragedies / Parimita Chakravarti and Swati Ganguly -- "Living in a different house": a Gambuh Macbeth in Bali / John Emigh -- "O heavy lightness, O serious vanity": camping Romeo and Juliet in postcolonial Taiwan / Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei. UK-SuSCL Summary, etc: Focusing specifically on the work of major directors in the central and emerging areas of Asia - Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines - leading scholars examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia.