Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia : an introduction / Poonam Trivedi -- Other Shakespeares in Asia : an overview / James Brandon -- Asian theatres, Mnouchkine, and Shakespeare : the search for a theatrical form / Brian Singleton -- Shakespeare and the Indian image(nary) : embod(y)ment in versions of a Midsummer Night's Dream / Poonam Trivedi -- "What, has this thing appear'd again tonight?" : re-playing Shakespeares on the Japanese stage / Minami Ryuta -- Fooling with Lear : a performance history of Suzuki Tadashi's King Lear (1984-2006) / Ian Carruthers -- Six people in search of "To be or not to be..." : Hamlet's soliloquay in six Chinese productions and the metamorphosis of Shakespeare performance on the Chinese stage / Li Ruru -- Is this Shakespeare? Inoue Hidenori's adaptations of Shakespeare / Yoshihara Yukari -- From proscenium to paddy fields : Utpal Dutt's Shakespeare Jatra / Tapati Gupta -- An never the twain shall meet? Shakespeare and Philippine performance traditions / Judy Celine Ick -- The stages 'occupied by Shakespeare' : intercultural performance and the search for 'Korean-ness' in Postcolonial Korea / Kim Moran -- Shakespeare in the shadows : cultural alienation, politics, and Eddin Khoo's shadow puppet adaptation of Macbeth / Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah and C.S. Lim -- The peripheral body of empire : Shakespearean adaptations and Taiwan's geopolitics / Wu Peichen -- "No world without verona walls"? Shakespeare in the provincial cultural marketplace / Alexander C.Y. Huang -- Dancing to Shakespeare : crossing genre and gender in the tragedies / Paromita Chakravarti and Swati Ganguly -- "Living in a different house" : a Gambuh Macbeth in Bali / John Emigh -- "O heavy lightness, o serious vanity" : camping Romeo and Juliet in Postcolonial Taiwan / Bi-Qi Beatrice Lei.