This volume explores post-1950s East Asian interpretations of Shakespeare and it analyses cinematic and dramatic works from Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and International Affairs at George Washington University where she serves as founding Co-director of the Digital Humanities Institute. She holds the John M. Kirk, Jr. Chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English. At MIT, she is the founding co-director of Global Shakespeares, an open-access performance video archive.

• Prologue: The Cultural Meanings of Shakespeare and Asia Today


• 1: 'To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores': Sound and Spectacle


• 2: 'Our toil shall strive to mend': Politics of Remediation


• 3: An 'isle full of noises': Polyphonic Reception


• 4: 'Divided in three our kingdom': Multilingualism and Diaspora


• Epilogue