Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare

Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she co-founded and co-directs the Digital Humanities Institute. Her books include Shakespeare and East Asia (2021), Race (2019), and the co-edited volumes Cinematic Allusions to Shakespeare: International Appropriation (2022), Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance (2018), and Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (2014).

• Chapter 1. Sinophone Shakespeares: A Critical Introduction, Alexa Alice Joubin.- Part 1. Existentialist Questions in Post-socialist China and Post-Martial-Law Taiwan.- Chapter 2. Hamlet as Political Theatre in Beijing: 哈姆雷特by Lin Zhaohua 林兆華 (1990), translated by Steven L. Riep and Ronald Kimmons and introduced by Steven Riep.- Chapter 3. Hamlet as Parody in Taipei: Shamlet 莎姆雷特 (Hamlet) by Lee Kuo-hsiu 李國修 (1992 / 2008), translated by Christopher Rea and introduced by Alexa Alice Joubin.- Part 2. Bewitched by Kunqu Opera and Avant-Garde Theatre.- Chapter 4. An Operatic Macbeth in Shanghai: Story of Bloody Hands 血手記 by Huang Zuolin 黃佐臨  (1987 / 2008), translated by Siyuan Liu and introduced by Alexa Alice Joubin.- Chapter 5. A Feminist Macbeth in Tainan: The Witches’ Sonata 女巫奏鳴曲．馬克白詩篇by Lü Po-shen呂柏伸(2007), translated and introduced by Yilin Chen.- Part 3. Self-Identities in Traditional and Experimental Jingju Opera.- Chapter 6. A Confucian King Lear in Shanghai: King Qi’s Dream 岐王夢 (King Lear) by Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company (1995), translated by Dongshin Chang and introduced by Alexa Alice Joubin.- Chapter 7. A Buddhist King Lear in Taipei: Lear Is Here李爾在此by Wu Hsing-kuo 吳興國, Contemporary Legend Theatre (2001), translated and introduced by Alexa Alice Joubin.- Coda: Chapter 8. Coda: Theatrical Bricolage of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth,and Othello in Beijing, 1986