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Shakespeare, Brecht, and the intercultural sign

In order to demonstrate how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations of familiar texts, Tatlow provides an examination of Asian versions of Shakespeare and Brecht
Print Book, English, 2001
Duke University Press, Durham [N.C.], 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
297 pages ; 25 cm
9780822327530, 9780822327639, 0822327538, 0822327635
45951644
Preface Prologue 1. Reading the Intercultural: Cultures of Reading 2. Intercultural Signs: Textual Anthropology 3. Desire, Laughter, and the Social Unconscious 4. Historicizing the Unconscious in Plautine and Shakespearean Farce 5. Coriolanus and the Historical Text 6. Macbeth in Kunju Opera Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index