Thomas Dabbs speaks with Alexa Alice Joubin of George Washington University about her recent book, 'Shakespeare and East Asia'. Alexa also reviewed her recent research in race and gender studies, with regard to Shakespeare, and presented on her examinations of Shakespearean adaptation across the globe in small and in large ways.
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:11 - Shakespeare and East Asia
00:08:52 - Constructed “foreignness”, invisible and visible
00:28:58 - Critical race studies and racial identity
00:27:41 - Reparative transgender Shakespeare
00:34:04 - Stage Beauty, inspired by Othello
00:38:45 - Transgender theory and Stage Beauty
00:47:50 - The King and the Clown, inspired by Hamlet, 12th Night, and Shrew
00:54:13 - Adapting Shakespeare for reparative purposes, vocal disability
00:57:05 - The King’s Speech, reparative adaptations
01:03:09 - Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare
01:10:04 - Teaching Shakespeare in a time of hate, inclusive pedagogies
01:15:49 - Screening Shakespeare, an open-access textbook
01:17:43 - Closing remarks
[KEYWORDS AND PHRASES]
Shakespeare and East Asia
How perception of “foreignness” is constructed in intercultural work
Critical race studies and racial identity
Being invisible and visible
Reparative transgender Shakespeare
Stage Beauty, inspired by Othello
The King and the Clown, inspired by Hamlet. Twelfth Night, and Taming of the Shrew
Adapting Shakespeare for reparative purposes
Depictions of vocal disability
The King’s Speech, recitation of “to be or not to be” in a scene
Teaching Shakespeare in a time of hate
Inclusive pedagogies
Strategies to de-colonize Shakespeare
Open-access interactive textbook on Shakespeare and film studies