Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace

Huang (comparative literature, The Pennsylvania State U.) and Ross (comparative literature, Purdue U.) present a diverse collection of 22 papers conducting readings of the relationships between Shakespeare and--largely separately--Hollywood, Asia, and cyberspace. Examples of topics addressed include Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and screwball comedy, method acting and Al Pacino's Looking for Richard, cultural anxiety and the female body in Zeffirelli's Hamlet, the visualization of metaphor in two Chinese versions of Macbeth, silence and sound in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, intercultural Shakespeare in Cambodia, mobilizing foreign Shakespeares in media, appropriation and the design of an online Shakespeare journal, and performing Shakespeare for the Web community. Also included are a chronology and a selected bibliography. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Alexa Huang is Founding Co-Director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute, Director of the Dean's Scholars in Shakespeare (a signature program of GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences), Director of Graduate Studies in English, and Professor of English, Theatre and Dance, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; and co-founder and co-director of the open access Global Shakespeares digital performance archive (http://globalshakespeares.org) and research affiliate in Literature at MIT. Charles S. Ross teaches comparative literature at Purdue University. He has translated Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1989) and Statius’s Thebaid (2004) and is the author of Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare (2003) and The Custom of the Castle from Malory to Macbeth (1997).