Beyond Shakespeare

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works. The focus and common theme are on race, body, and class. With the background of COVID-19 since 2019 up to the present, the book offers the readers with the remarkable insight of human beings' accumulated wisdom and experiences in surviving with the dreadful diseases like the plagues in Shakespeare's time. After the supreme reading, may the global readers in the world acquire the knowledge and power to live in sustainability with education and entertainment of films, performances, and online streaming Netflix TV dramas.

The first book to cover the translocal studies bridging between the East and the West. The only book deals with interdisciplinary critical studies on the canon and popular films Brings together the expert ideas on race, class, politics, love, sexuality, marriage, and culture

Auteur

Iris H. Tuan is a Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

Tuan received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA. Tuan was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Harvard University. Her excellent and prolific publications include hundreds of

papers and ten books, such as Pop with Gods, Shakespeare, and AI: Popular Film, (Musical)

Theatre, and TV Drama (2020), Translocal Performance in Asian Theatre and Film (Palgrave

Macmillan, 2018), and co-edited Transnational Performance, Identity and Mobility in Asia

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Résumé

"There was a plague in Shakespeare's time (Lear, Macbeth and Titus Andronicus were written during plague years), food and drink in Shakespeare (audiences ate and drank during his plays) ... . There is, in other words, a similar eclecticism in this book, together with a constant emphasis on performance. Iris Tuan rakes it in as grist for her comprehensive mill. Titus Andronicus is interesting ... ." (taipeitimes.com, April 18, 2024)

Contenu
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I Asian American Theatre and Asian Performances.- Chapter 2 Race and Identity in David Henry Hwang's Plays and Musicals.- Chapter 3 River/Cloud: Fill in the Blank via Memory, Imagination, and Meta-theatre.- Chapter 4 Theatre Ecology, Nature, and Politics in Shakespeare's Plays and Hold On, Love!.- Part II Shakespeare.- Chapter 5 Food/Drink Consumption, Emotions, and Obsessions in Shakespeare's Plays and Art.- Chapter 6 Women and the `Feminine' by Quoting Shakespeare's Sonnets and Image Change in Screen.- Chapter 7 During COVID-19 Pandemics, Reflect on Plagues in Shakespeare's Plays.- Chapter 8 Post-modern Bizarre & Post-human Zombie: Warm Bodies and Titus.- Chapter 9 Images, Travelling, and Visual Culture in Shakespeare's Plays: Through and Beyond Repetition.- Part III Netflix TV Dramas.- Chapter 10 Immaterial Representations in Altered Carbon: Sex, Body, and Memories.- Chapter 11 (In)Hospitality and Visual Culture in Downton Abbey.- Chapter 12 Conclusion.