Public Event

Asian Embodiment of a White Canon: Shakespeare and the Sinophone World: This event is part of the China and the West: Cultural Dialogues series, sponsored by Georgetown University's Future of the Humanities Project (a partnership with Campion Hall, Oxford, and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford) in cooperation with SACU.    Shakespeare’s tragedies have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The tragedies have been reimagined as political theatre, feminist operas, Buddhist meditations, and even comedies and parodies... Featured: Alexa Alice Joubin writes about race, gender, and cultural globalization. Her latest book, Shakespeare and East Asia, was […]