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Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet
- Author(s):
- Kevin A. Quarmby (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, GS Drama and Performance, LLC Shakespeare, Shakespeare
- Subject(s):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Literature--Adaptations, Theater
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- South Korea, Shakespeare in performance, Shamanism, Hamlet, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in adaptation, Shakespeare performance, Global Shakespeare
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/bwgy-qa22
- Abstract:
- "Shamanistic Shakespeare: Korea's Colonization of Hamlet" offers a timely reminder about the dangers of imposing a reformulated national myth on international Shakespeare productions. Focusing on a London performance of Korea’s Yohangza Theatre Company’s shamanized Hamlet, this case study invites far broader consideration of the readability of global Shakespeares, and the cultural competence required by Western audiences to appreciate their political, historical, and local complexity. The Korean theatre industry’s colonizing of Hamlet is traced to a Seoul-based nationalist intellectual agenda to reinvent Korea’s mythic identity after a century of cultural oppression. The chapter demonstrates how this concretizing of shamanic symbolism, packaged for Westernized theatregoing consumption, has created a supposedly authentic Koreanized Shakespeare genre that is confusing to local and global audiences alike.
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- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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