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Bi-cultural critical essays on Shakespeare

Oriental perspective on Shakespearean themes, drawing on Eastern philosophical, religious and ethical traditions.
Print Book, English, 1995
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Brewer, Cambridge, 1995
ix, 126 Seiten 22 cm
9780859914185, 0859914186
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Different interpretations due to different cultural contexts - providence and Karmic causality, life and death, an Oriental philosophy of harmony; the mystery of Yin and Yang; some problems of understanding "King Lear" arising from differences of cultural backgrounds; fairies and witches - East and West; two pictures of Desdemona; parallel examples of chastity - East and West; a religious approach to Shakespeare.
Includes index