Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global phenomenon its signature themes become context-dependent and culture-specific whilst avoiding simplistic appeals to the play's universality. International scholars of literature and theatre explore those culturally specific interpretations as new plays, films, and critical contributions on their own terms. As a film in Japan, King Lear becomes a meditation on contemporary eldercare and the…mehr
Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global phenomenon its signature themes become context-dependent and culture-specific whilst avoiding simplistic appeals to the play's universality. International scholars of literature and theatre explore those culturally specific interpretations as new plays, films, and critical contributions on their own terms. As a film in Japan, King Lear becomes a meditation on contemporary eldercare and the question of celebrity; on a stage in Hungary the play emerges as a ferocious invective against domestic abuse; in another performance in Hungary the play considers childhood trauma and a crisis in maternal care; and a pan-Asian Lear emerges out of multiple adaptations on stage and screen in India, Japan, and China. Taken together these readings are dismantled as merely derivative interpretations and cast instead as theatrical and cinematic engines of transformation. Despite the play's focus on the cultural context of England, this volume highlights King Lear's position as one of the most popular texts for international directors and playwrights to explore their own nations' troubles and challenges. This collection focuses on the potential for King Lear to be performed, adapted, and understood anew by multiple audiences in a range of mediums and contexts.
Introduction by William R. Rampone (South Carolina State University USA) and Eric S. Mallin (University of Texas at Austin USA) I. Social and ethical responsibilities 1. Leave the Brits take the Shakespeare: Echoing King Lear Banishing British Blood and Indigenizing Shakespeare in 36 Chowringhee Lane Melissa Croteau (California Baptist University USA) 2. Upon a Wheel of Fire': King Lear and Social Reparation Alexa Alice Joubin ( George Washington University USA) 3. Populism with a distinctly macho flavor: a contemporary King Lear in a Post-Communist context Gabriella Reuss (Pázmány Péter Catholic University Hungary) II. Aging death and citizenship 4. Institute of English Studies; "The Spectres of Lear: Shakespeare's Apocalyptic Tragedy in Selected Polish Theatre Productions" Malgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw Poland) 5. Indian Lears Aging and Culture Paromita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University India) 6. Masahiro Kobayashi's Lear on the Beach: Tatsuya Nakadai and the Modern Issue of Aging in Japan Hisao Oshima (Kyushu University Japan) III. Lear 's theatres and metatheatricality 7. The Transformation of King Lear in the Process of Huaju Sinicization Jing Li (Peking University China) 8. Lear's Death-a tragicomedy on the Hungarian Stage Agnes Matuska (University of Szeged Hungary) 9. The Last Lear: Stagecraft Cinema and the Crisis of Representation Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta India) 10. Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi's Dream a Peking Opera Zhang Qiong (Fudan University China) IV. Cross-Cultural encounters and the drama of ideas 11. Productions of King Lear on German Stages in the late Eighteenth Century Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Germany) 12. Fathers Daughters and Absent Mothers: Power and Gender in Kishida Rio's Lear Colleen Lanki (University of British Columbia Canada) 13. Beyond Pragmatism: Apocalypse Adaptation and Historicity in King Lear and Some of its Czech Versions Martin Procházka (Charles University Czech Republic) Index
Introduction by William R. Rampone (South Carolina State University USA) and Eric S. Mallin (University of Texas at Austin USA) I. Social and ethical responsibilities 1. Leave the Brits take the Shakespeare: Echoing King Lear Banishing British Blood and Indigenizing Shakespeare in 36 Chowringhee Lane Melissa Croteau (California Baptist University USA) 2. Upon a Wheel of Fire': King Lear and Social Reparation Alexa Alice Joubin ( George Washington University USA) 3. Populism with a distinctly macho flavor: a contemporary King Lear in a Post-Communist context Gabriella Reuss (Pázmány Péter Catholic University Hungary) II. Aging death and citizenship 4. Institute of English Studies; "The Spectres of Lear: Shakespeare's Apocalyptic Tragedy in Selected Polish Theatre Productions" Malgorzata Grzegorzewska (University of Warsaw Poland) 5. Indian Lears Aging and Culture Paromita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University India) 6. Masahiro Kobayashi's Lear on the Beach: Tatsuya Nakadai and the Modern Issue of Aging in Japan Hisao Oshima (Kyushu University Japan) III. Lear 's theatres and metatheatricality 7. The Transformation of King Lear in the Process of Huaju Sinicization Jing Li (Peking University China) 8. Lear's Death-a tragicomedy on the Hungarian Stage Agnes Matuska (University of Szeged Hungary) 9. The Last Lear: Stagecraft Cinema and the Crisis of Representation Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta India) 10. Continuity in the Floating World: King Lear in King Qi's Dream a Peking Opera Zhang Qiong (Fudan University China) IV. Cross-Cultural encounters and the drama of ideas 11. Productions of King Lear on German Stages in the late Eighteenth Century Claudia Olk (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Germany) 12. Fathers Daughters and Absent Mothers: Power and Gender in Kishida Rio's Lear Colleen Lanki (University of British Columbia Canada) 13. Beyond Pragmatism: Apocalypse Adaptation and Historicity in King Lear and Some of its Czech Versions Martin Procházka (Charles University Czech Republic) Index
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