Shakespeare in Singapore: Performance, Education, and Culture (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

by PhilipSmith (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2018

  $139.69

  Philip Smith's study is a history of Shakespeare in Singapore beginning from the founding of modern Singapore to the present day. It tracks the influence of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education, and culture.

  This book unites the critical interest in Singaporean theatre with the substantial body of scholarship that concerns global Shakespeare studies. It provides the first detailed and sustained study of the role which Shakespeare has played and, indeed, continues to play, in Singaporean arts, and the ways in which Singaporean approaches to Shakespeare have been shaped by cultural work going on elsewhere in Asia.

  Replete with sources including government and school records, the entire span of Singapore's newspaper archives, playbills, interviews with educators, theatre professionals, and existing academic sources, this book is a vital read for scholars and students in the field.