Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index.
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. Macbath in Kunju opera -- Epilogue.
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Examines Asian staging of Western canonical theater, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts.
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JSTOR
22573/ctv120gd0d
Shakespeare, Brecht, and the intercultural sign.
0822327635
Brecht, Bertolt,1898-1956-- Adaptations-- History and criticism.
Brecht, Bertolt,1898-1956-- Appreciation-- Asia.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Adaptations-- History and criticism.