Wu Hsing-kuo as Lear in Lear Is Here (2001).

Shakespeare has been staged, filmed, translated, appropriated, and taught in Asia for several centuries, generating extraordinary artistic and intellectual energy. The meeting of Shakespeare and Asia has led to the transformation of traditions that has worked in both directions at once. This visuals database chronicles this exciting new wave of East-West intercultural theatre and cinema.

Slide Show. Click on the navigation buttons on the left to view slide shows of performances. Click here for links to global Shakespearean adpatations.

Click on the photo below to access Shakespeare Performance in Asia, co-edited by Alexander Huang and Peter Donaldson to document the diversity of Shakespeare's global reincarnations and the multifaceted Asian performance cultures.

A Kathakali adaptation of King Lear staged at the London Globe (1999)

Cataloguing in progress. The site is under continuous revision and expansion. More videos, production photos, records of performances, rehearsal notes, prompt books, stage designs, prints, costumes, drawings, and other visual materials are being added.

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Acknowledgements. The research and the database was supported at different stages by a number of institutions and grant agencies, including the Folger Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Pennsylvania State University (Institute for the Arts and Humanities, President's Fund, Global Fund, Educational Technology Servicecs, and the Department of Comparative Literature), the Mellon Foundation and the Middlebury College Center for Educational Technology, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, and Stanford University (Stanford Shakespeare Institute Planning Group, Stanford Shakespeare in Asia Initiative, and several other units).