TY - JOUR

T1 - Digital Asian Shakespeare Festival, 11th World Shakespeare Congress, Singapore, 18-24 July 2021

T2 - World Circuits, 18 - 24 July 2021

AU - Olive, Sarah

N1 - No Acceptance date from Publisher but validated without as Published whilst working at York and not BU

PY - 2021/11

Y1 - 2021/11

N2 - The 2021 Digital Asian Shakespeare Festival nested within the 11th World Shakespeare Congress in Singapore, ‘where communities of Shakespeare scholars, teachers and practitioners in over 40 countries’ gathered online. Lee Hyon-u, the Festival Director, arranged an astonishing array of Asian performances. Lee wrote of the festival as offering ‘rare opportunities for delegates to enjoy the diversity and depth of Asian Shakespeare while breaking through the barrier of the Covid pandemic’. This article argues that recent Asian Shakespeare productions included in the festival offer inspiration for those staging Shakespeare worldwide as the arts attempt to recover from the pandemic.

AB - The 2021 Digital Asian Shakespeare Festival nested within the 11th World Shakespeare Congress in Singapore, ‘where communities of Shakespeare scholars, teachers and practitioners in over 40 countries’ gathered online. Lee Hyon-u, the Festival Director, arranged an astonishing array of Asian performances. Lee wrote of the festival as offering ‘rare opportunities for delegates to enjoy the diversity and depth of Asian Shakespeare while breaking through the barrier of the Covid pandemic’. This article argues that recent Asian Shakespeare productions included in the festival offer inspiration for those staging Shakespeare worldwide as the arts attempt to recover from the pandemic.

KW - Asian Shakespeare

KW - Singapore

KW - World Shakespeare Congress

KW - digital Shakespeare

KW - festival

U2 - 10.1177/01847678211044095

DO - 10.1177/01847678211044095

M3 - Review article

VL - 106

SP - 75

EP - 83

JO - Cahiers Elisabéthains

JF - Cahiers Elisabéthains

SN - 0184-7678

IS - 1

ER -