Shakespeare and East Asia

a nuanced view of what it means to think about Shakespeare and East Asia * Amanda Kennell, Assistant Teaching Professor of International Studies at North Carolina State University. *
In sum, this book is a major contribution to the understanding of the history and value of Shakespeare and East Asian theatre and film industry, and I recommend it to anyone interested in theatre and cinema studies. * Huimin Wang, Theatre Research International *
[A] sweeping and formidably learned survey of the many ways in which artists across a vast part of the non-English-speaking world have been reimagining and repurposing Shakespeare's plays from the 1950s through the present day. * Jeff Tompkins, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *
The tone is accessible, the scholarship up-to-date, the materials kaleidoscopic, the ideas clearly articulated. Her presentation is admirably linear and lucid. Joubin has proposed for us a dazzling itinerary across these unpathed waters, undreamed shores, traversing states unborn and accents yet unknown. * Shakespeare Quarterly *
Shakespeare and East Asia makes a significant contribution to the field by showing new ways of engaging with foreign Shakespeare from various perspectives, not just as the Other of Anglophone Shakespeare. It also stresses the importance of East Asian cinema hitherto neglected in global Shakespeare studies. Rounded out by a glossary of Asian terms, a chronology that lists key East Asian Shakespeare works alongside historical events, and further reading with up-to-date scholarship, the book will prove an excellent resource for those who are interested in Shakespeare, performance, and East Asian culture. * Theatre Journal *
Joubin's approach lights the way for future studies that may build on the critical work she has done in tracing these broad networks across borders, cultures and languages. * Multicultural Shakespeare *
This thought-provoking and meticulously researched study maps the richness and complexity of East Asian contributions to the rise of global Shakespeare as a prominent genre and offers a renewed and illuminating understanding of the tension between cultural homogenization and heterogenization in global communities. * MCLC: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *
Shakespeare and East Asia challenges a prevailing critical tendency to interpret contemporary Asian films and theatrical performances inspired by Shakespeare primarily as geopolitical allegories. Instead, Joubinâs rhizomatic approach seeks to localize and analyze the aesthetic choices made within productions. * The Shakespearean International Yearbook *
Alexa Alice Joubin's Shakespeare and East Asia is a thorough exploration of Shakespeare's reincarnation via theatrical and cinematic adaptations in East Asia from the 1950s onward. It pays attention to four major themes: the innovations insound and spectacle from Japan; the application of Shakespeare in Sinophone contexts for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities onstage and onscreen; and the discourses of multilingualism,disability, and race in cinema and diasporic theater between the East and theWest. * Chuan-Haur Liu, Shakespeare Bulletin *