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Lees, Duncan (2021) Citizen of the world, or citizen of nowhere? Shakespeare Lives in China in 2016. In: Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies . Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, pp. 199-224. ISBN 9783030840129
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_8
Abstract
When Gregory Doran, the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), came to tackle the hoary question of Shakespeare’s supposed universality in his 2016 Richard Dimbleby Lecture for the BBC, he did so by asking: ‘Is Shakespeare Chinese?’ Doran’s seemingly unusual question was the result of his experiences during the RSC’s 2016 theatrical tour of China, but in fact Shakespeare enjoyed unprecedented visibility in the People’s Republic throughout the 400th anniversary of his death. Shakespeare’s Globe also toured China, wide-ranging commemorative activities were held by commercial, cultural, and educational organisations (both domestic and international), and the British Council placed a special emphasis on China as part of its Shakespeare Lives programme. This chapter will examine these complexities and contradictions, considering how Shakespeare Lives in China attempted to negotiate various challenges—intercultural and political, logistical, and linguistic—and how Shakespeare was constructed throughout the process. Interviews with diplomatic staff and participants from Shakespeare’s Globe, together with critical reflections on my own role as an academic invited to participate in the project, will shed light on the experiences of those involved in delivering it.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- China, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- History and criticism, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence | ||||||||
| Series Name: | Palgrave Shakespeare Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | Switzerland | ||||||||
| ISBN: | 9783030840129 | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2731-3204 | ||||||||
| Book Title: | Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 18 December 2021 | ||||||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 199-224 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-84013-6_8 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | The Authors |
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