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RSC takes Shakespeare to China

RSC takes Shakespeare to China

By Martin Chilton for the Telegraph, 30 December 2015 William Shakespeare, once banned and denounced under Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, will gain a new Chinese audience in 2016 when the Royal Shakespeare Company embarks on its first major tour of China. Shakespeare’s works were banned in China from 1964 to 1977 and the playwright was denounced as “revisionist, feudalist and capitalist” and […]

January 9, 2016 · 0 comments · Global, Theaters
Reworking Shakespeare for a modern Chinese audience

Reworking Shakespeare for a modern Chinese audience

By Raymond Zhou for The Telegraph, 21 October 2015 The first production of Shakespeare in was staged in 1902 when, in an effort to better understand English history and language, students at Shanghai St John College put on The Merchant of Venice in the original English. The story of Antonio, Portia and Shylock also produced the most popular Chinese-language dramatisations in the early […]

November 1, 2015 · 0 comments · Global