Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign

"An interesting and commendable contribution to Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. Tatlow has a cogent, complex, and distinctive point of view."--Hugh H. Grady, author of "Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to Millennium"

List of contents

Preface

Prologue

1. Reading the Intercultural: Cultures of Reading

2. Intercultural Signs: Textual Anthropology

3. Desire, Laughter, and the Social Unconscious

4. Historicizing the Unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean Farce

5. Coriolanus and the Historical Text

6. Macbeth in Kunju Opera

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

Antony Tatlow

Summary

This volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts.

Product details

• Authors: Antony Tatlow, Tatlow, Antony Tatlow
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2001
• EAN: 9780822327530
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2753-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 243 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 685 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Theaterwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker