103年第1學期-5128 莎士比亞在亞洲 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
In-Class Participation	40
Oral Report	30
Final Essay	30

教育目標

The students will be guided to explore 1.the universality of Shakespeare’s plays through an issue-based approach. 2.the (re-)presentations of Shakespeare’s plays on stage with Asian theatrical traditions. 3.the significance of Shakespearean productions in Asia within the context of inter-cultural / cross-cultural performance theories.

課程概述

Over the last few decades, more and more theatre practitioners in Asian countries, including Japan, China, India, Korea, and Taiwan, have come to recognize the dramatic power of Shakespeare’s plays, and use the theatrical skills they are trained with to penetrate and interpret what they regard as the core of the Bard’s dramaturgy; among them are Wu Xing-guo in Taiwan with Beijing Opera traditions, Ninagawa in Japan with features of the Kabuki, and Indian groups with performance styles of Khata Khali. Drama researchers such as John Russell Brown and Richard Schechner have observed this uprising trend and tried to explore the phenomenon in their books with trans-political and cross-cultural perspectives. Very often productions presented by these enthusiastic Asian theatre practitioners can be seen not only as an index to reveal the intrinsic universality of Shakespeare’s dramatic creation, but also as a signal to indicate Asia’s ambition of getting located or re-located near the center of the world map. This course aims to investigate into the cross-cultural combination of William Shakespeare’s dramatic texts and the theatrical conventions of certain Asian countries. With the help of the dramatic and cultural theories developed by renowned scholars such as Brown, Schechner, Bharucha, and Fischer-Lichte, students of this course will be guided to examine the relationships between cultural presentations and representations, and hence cultivate a better understanding of the new possibilities of presenting Shakespeare’s plays with Asian approaches.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：3-0
上課時間：四/5,6,7[LAN212-2]
修課班級：外文碩1,2
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：

參考書目

1.The RSC Shakespeare Complete Works, ed. by J. Bate and E. Rasmussen (2007), London: Macmillan
2.The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies, ed. by S. Wells (1986), Cambridge University Press
3.New Sites for Shakespeare: Theatre, the Audience, and Asia, J. R. Brown (1999), Cambridge University Press
4.The Intercultural Performance Reader, ed. by P. Pavis (1996), London: Routledge
5.Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture (1993), London: Routledge
6.The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader, ed. by M. Huxley and N. Witts (1996), London: Routledge
7.Shakespeare: A Life, P. Honan (1998), Oxford University Press
8.Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance, D. Kennedy (1993), Cambridge University Press