Conceptualizing Korean Shakespeare in the Era of Globalization

This chapter demonstrates how significant Korean Shakespeare performances (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) have balanced the authenticity of Shakespeare with the desire to retain and refurbish the heritage of indigenous Korean performing arts. Using Hamlet as the central example, the questions explored here concern how “ Shakespeare ,” as a signifier of the Western Canon and as a global cultural capital, gets translated via various forms of Asian traditional performing arts devices; the extent to which the producers accommodate their current young audience in terms of archaic performing devices; and how one can deal with these issues in the context of cultural globalization amidst the lure of interculturalism . These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.