Shakespeare and More: Screen, Stage, and Streaming Media - Hardcover

by Iris H. Tuan (Author)

This interdisciplinary book of twelve chapters explores not only Shakespeare, but also more than Shakespeare, including the contemporary adaptation of plays and novels represented on screen, stage, and streaming media. It analyzes reinterpretations by directors like Spielberg and Coen, and applies Ecocriticism to uncover ecological and moral themes. From overlooked characters like Rosaline to the historical imagination in All Is True, the book probes power, gender, and tragedy. Case studies include Julius Caesar interpreted in Taiwan's Caesar's Maze (a collaboration with Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera), Shakespearean echoes in Netflix's Copycat Killer and Love, Death + Robots, and posthuman futures in Atwood's Oryx & Crake. It also explores how theater, museums, and AI reshape cultural memory, and how law, race, and technology intersect in Killers of the Flower Moon and Black Mirror. The global tours of Mamma Mia! and Once in Taiwan highlight transnational storytelling extending beyond more than Shakespeare.

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"Iris Tuan's latest book of Shakespeare scholarship considers a select list of innovative adaptations, primarily global cinema as well as other media. Running through this book is a braid of themes: violence and war, the promise and peril of new technology, and the environment. While many of the chapters stand alone, Tuan's book as a whole aims to surface the many modern evils that contemporary Shakespeare adaptations challenge viewers to consider, analyze, and ultimately resist."
--D.J. Hopkins, Professor, School of Theatre, Television, and Film, San Diego State University, California

"Iris Tuan has written profusely on various aspects of Shakespeare. Her latest book delves into the fascinating and often surprising ways that Shakespeare and transmutations of Shakespeare color contemporary art and society. The book offers a wide range of arguments documenting Shakespearean influences not only on film, stage and TV, but on museums and AI as well. Both scholars and those who simply love the arts will enjoy reading it."
--Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, PhD, Professor Emerita of Theatre, University of California, Los Angeles

This interdisciplinary book of twelve chapters explores not only Shakespeare, but also more than Shakespeare, including the contemporary adaptation of plays and novels represented on screen, stage, and streaming media. It analyzes reinterpretations by directors like Spielberg and Coen, and applies Ecocriticism to uncover ecological and moral themes. From overlooked characters like Rosaline to the historical imagination in All Is True, the book probes power, gender, and tragedy. Case studies include Julius Caesar interpreted in Taiwan's Caesar's Maze (a collaboration with Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera), Shakespearean echoes in Netflix's Copycat Killer and Love, Death + Robots, and posthuman futures in Atwood's Oryx & Crake. It also explores how theater, museums, and AI reshape cultural memory, and how law, race, and technology intersect in Killers of the Flower Moon and Black Mirror. The global tours of Mamma Mia! and Once in Taiwan highlight transnational storytelling extending beyond more than Shakespeare.

Iris H. Tuan (段馨君) is a Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.Tuan received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA. Tuan was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Harvard University.

Author Biography

Iris H. Tuan (段馨君) is a Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Tuan received her Ph.D. in Theater from UCLA. Tuan was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Harvard University.