This study titled "Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and beyond" deals with more than 200 Shakespearean productions which have been produced since 1990. Especially, it tries to analyse Koreanized Shakespearean productions, which are believed to be succ ...
This study titled "Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and beyond" deals with more than 200 Shakespearean productions which have been produced since 1990. Especially, it tries to analyse Koreanized Shakespearean productions, which are believed to be successful in terms of critics' evaluations as well as box office records. Those analyses are done not only according to thematic classification such as the style of Koreanization, feminism, shamanism, but also according to representative directors such as Oh Tae-suk, Lee Yun-taek, Han Tae-sook.
The most important thing is objectivity when we evaluate a production that is performed abroad. We would often observe critics' too generous overestimation of oversea performances as well as their underestimation to disregard their merits. Consequently, this study includes foreign Shakespearean scholars' and theatre critics' papers in order to acquire more objective estimation about globalizing processes of Koreanized Shakespearean productions. We collected very valuable papers with detailed and objective informations from Prof. Brian Singleton, president of International Federation of Theatre Research, Prof. Maria Shevtsova (UK), Prof. Ravi Chaturvedi (India), Prof. Peter Smith (UK), and Prof. Kaori Kobayashi (Japan), Prof. Daniel Gallimore (Japan).
The ultimate purpose of this study is to publish the English book titled "Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and beyond." The introduction to the book is to explain the general situation of Korean Shakespearean productions through the relationship between Shakespeare boom and the cultural environments of globalization. The first chapter is to refer to the relationship between Korean culture and Shakespearean productions, and the second chapter is to analyse the representative directors' Shakespearean productions such as Oh Tae-suk, Lee Yun-taek, Han Tae-sook. Especially, the third chapter is to contain foreign professors' papers, which are focusing Oh Tae-suk's Romeo and Juliet and Yang Jung-woong's A Midsummer Night's Dream that were performed at the Barbican Center in London as well as in Korea. Finally, Prof. Kaori Kobayashi's paper, "Going beyond the National Boundaries-Cultural Transbility of Korean Shakespeares," is to suggest a wider vision to Korean Shakespeare by connecting Korean Shakespeares and Asia Shakespeares.