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This interdisciplinary book of twelve chapters explores not only Shakespeare, but also more than Shakespeare, including the contemporary adaptation of plays and novels represented on screen, stage, and streaming media. It analyzes reinterpretations by directors like Spielberg and Coen, and applies Ecocriticism to uncover ecological and moral themes. From overlooked characters like Rosaline to the historical imagination in All Is True, the book probes power, gender, and tragedy. Case studies include Julius Caesar interpreted in Taiwan s Caesar s Maze (a collaboration with Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera), Shakespearean echoes in Netflix s Copycat Killer and Love, Death + Robots, and posthuman futures in Atwood s Oryx & Crake. It also explores how theater, museums, and AI reshape cultural memory, and how law, race, and technology intersect in Killers of the Flower Moon and Black Mirror. The global tours of Mamma Mia! and Once in Taiwan highlight transnational storytelling extending beyond more than Shakespeare.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Shakespeare.- Chapter 2: Shakespeare in Transformation: History and Imagination Intertwined in All Is True.- Chapter 3: Call to Action about Moral Turpitude Symbolized by Ecological Degradation in Shakespeare s Plays.- Chapter 4: Imaging Shakespeare and Visualizing Shakespeare by the Less-known Characters.- Chapter 5: Adaptation and Representation of Shakespeare in Screen: Director Steven Allan Spielberg s West Side Story and Director Joel Cohn s The Tragedy of Macbeth.- Chapter 6: Ecology and Shakespeare: Ecocriticism and Political Implication in Caesar s Maze.- Part II : More than Shakespeare Films, Netflix TV Drama, Novels, Animation, Theater, Museum, AI, and Musicals.- Chapter 7: Hope in the Tragedy Shakespeare s Titus Andronicus and Netflix TV Drama Copycat Killer.- Chapter 8: Care and Catastrophe in Posthumanist Times and the Anthropocene: Bioengineered Post-humanism in the film The Impossible and the novel Oryx & Crake, and Post-cyborg AI Robots Transhumanism in Netflix Animation Love, Death +Robots.- Chapter 9: Revisioning the Story from the Historical and Contemporary: Theater, Museum, and AI.- Chapter 10: Filter in the Non-fiction and Film Killers of the Flower Moon and Netflix Black Mirror.- Chapter 12: Mama Mia! Once upon a Dream: Transnational Musicals Touring in Taiwan. Chapter 13: Conclusion.
About the author
Iris H. Tuan (段馨君) 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.
Summary
This interdisciplinary book of twelve chapters explores not only Shakespeare, but also more than Shakespeare, including the contemporary adaptation of plays and novels represented on screen, stage, and streaming media. It analyzes reinterpretations by directors like Spielberg and Coen, and applies Ecocriticism to uncover ecological and moral themes. From overlooked characters like Rosaline to the historical imagination in All Is True, the book probes power, gender, and tragedy. Case studies include Julius Caesar interpreted in Taiwan’s Caesar’s Maze (a collaboration with Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera), Shakespearean echoes in Netflix’s Copycat Killer and Love, Death + Robots, and posthuman futures in Atwood’s Oryx & Crake. It also explores how theater, museums, and AI reshape cultural memory, and how law, race, and technology intersect in Killers of the Flower Moon and Black Mirror. The global tours of Mamma Mia! and Once in Taiwan highlight transnational storytelling extending beyond more than Shakespeare.
