Shakespeare and Asia - Paperback

by Jonathan Locke Hart (Editor)

Shakespeare and Asia brings together innovative scholars from Asia or with Asian connections to explore these matters of East-West and global contexts then and now. The collection ranges from interpretations of Shakespeare's plays to studies of film, opera or scholarship in Asia.

Author Biography

Jonathan Locke Hart (Ph.D., University of Toronto, English; Ph.D, University of Cambridge, History) Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, is Chair Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU); Director, Centre for Creative Writing and Literary Culture and Translation, SJTU; Core Faculty, Comparative Literature, Western University; Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has written over 20 books and edited others and contributed book chapters (publishers include OUP, CUP, Champion, Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge). With Routledge, he published his first book in 1994 and had two edited collections appear in Routledge Revivals in 2014. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over 100 articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine, Peking, and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.