The first full-length study of gender performance in East and Southeast Asian Shakespeare productions, this book re-situates gender theory within new performance contexts, forms and communities, exploring the performativity of gender in East and Southeast Asian Shakespeare performances. It explores the ways in which performances of gender produce the terms through which intercultural engagements with Shakespeare take place, as theatre practitioners negotiate gender representations and relations as the means through which to negotiate the legacy of westernisation in their theatre practices. Ultimately, this book proposes new ways for thinking about feminist theories in performances and contexts based outside the Westeven as it remains informed and influenced by feminist theories originating from within the Westand envisions future opportunities for feminist theorising through negotiations with intercultural theatre performances of Shakespeare in Asia.

Autorentext

Roweena Yip is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her PhD in Theatre Studies from NUS, having completed her Masters and undergraduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research has been published in Asian Theatre Journal, The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction and The Asian Family in Literature and Film . She is also Assistant Director of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A)

Klappentext

Gender in Asian Shakespeare: Towards Intercultural Feminism is the first full-length study of gender in East and Southeast Asian productions of Shakespeare's plays. Resituating gender theory within new performance contexts, forms and communities, this book explores the ways in which performances of gender produce the terms through which intercultural engagements with Shakespeare take place. By doing so, it explores the possibilities and complications that emerge when theatre practitioners stage gender representations and relations as they negotiate with Shakespeare's legacy in their theatre practices. Across its chapters, this book proposes new ways for thinking about feminist theories in non-Western performances and contextseven as it remains informed and influenced by feminist theories originating from within the Westand envisions future opportunities for theorising feminism through negotiations with intercultural theatre performances of Shakespeare's plays in Asia. Informed by Western feminist thought, this book offers analyses of non-Western performances and contexts, but envisions new heterogeneous approaches to theorising feminism through engagements with intercultural theatre performances of Shakespeare's plays in Asia.

Roweena Yip is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her PhD in Theatre Studies from NUS, having completed her Masters and undergraduate degrees at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research has been published in Asian Theatre Journal, The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction and The Asian Family in Literature and Film . She is also Assistant Director of the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A).

Inhalt

Chapter 01: Introduction.- Chapter 02: Witnessing the Performance of Memory and Female Subjectivities in Othello in Noh Style and Lady Macbeth.- Chapter 03: Reading Cross-Gender Performances: A Case Study of Two Shrews .- ** Chapter 04: Intercultural Relationships between Femininity and Korean Shaman Practice in Uruwang and Yohangza's Hamlet.- Chapter 05: Gender Ambiguity and the Weird Sisters.- Chapter 06: Intercultural Partnership and the Performance of Gender Relations in Romeo at Julieta.- Chapter 07: Conclusion.