Shakespearean Adaptations in East Asia : A Critical Anthology of Shakespearean Plays in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (Hardcover)

Volume 1: China

Editor: Alexander HUANG, Pennsylvania State University, USA

1. Tian Mansha's solo Sichuan opera Lady Macbeth by Xu Fen

2. Huang Zuolin 's Kun opera The Story of Bloody Hands (adapted from Macbeth)

3. Shanghai Yue Opera Company's Hamlet

4. Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company 's King Qi's Dream (adapted from King Lear)

5. Liu Qing and Tao Jun, To Be or Not to Be (An adaptation of Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, Othello all in one play)

Volume 2: Japan I, Shakespeare and Traditional Theatre

Editor: Yoshihara Yukari, Tsukuba University, Japan

1. Katsu Genzo & Utagawa Bunkai’s It’s the World Where Money Talks (Kabuki adaptation of The Merchant of Venice)

2. Emi Sui'in ’s Osero (Shimpa adaptation of Othello)

3. Kojima Koshu’s Hibiki (Shimpa adaptation of Timon of Athens)

4. Ueda Kuniyoshi’s Noh Hamlet and Noh King Lear (Two plays)

5. Takahashi Yasunari’s Kyogen of Errors (Kyogen adaptation of The Comedy of Errors)

Volume 3: Taiwan

Editor: Alexander Huang

1. Wu Hsing-kuo's Lear Is Here, solo Peking opera production

2. Lee Kuo-hsiu 's Shamlet (spoken drama in Mandarin Chinese)

3. Wu Hsing-kuo’s Kingdom of Desire, Peking opera adaptation (adapted from Macbeth)

4. Perng Ching-hsi & Chen Fang’s The Bond (adapted from Merchant of Venice)

5. Lai Shengchuan (Stan Lai)’s Lear and the 37-fold Path of a Bodhisattva