Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys

Taylor & Francis

This volume gives Asia\u2019s Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, alternative ways of thinking about Asia, Shakespeare, and Asian Shakespeare based on Asian experiences and histories. Challenging and supplementing the dominant critical and theoretical structures that determine Shakespeare studies today, close analysis of Shakespeare\u2019s Asian journeys, critical encounters, cultural geographies, and the political complexions of these negotiations reveal perspectives different to the European. Exploring what Shakespeare has done to Asia along with what Asia has done with Shakespeare, this book demonstrates how Shakespeare helps articulate Asianess, unfolding Asia\u2019s past, reflecting Asia\u2019s present, and projecting Asia\u2019s future. This is achieved by forgoing the myth of the Bard\u2019s universality, bypassing the authenticity test, avoiding merely descriptive or even ethnographic accounts, and using caution when applyin.