Shakespeare's World/World Shakespeares : The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress Brisbane, 2006.

Intro -- The International Shakespeare Association -- Previous volumes of proceedings -- Contents -- foreward -- Prologue -- Between Tyranny and Freedom: A Brief Voyage with the Bard -- Shakespeare's World -- ''The little dogs and all'': Ceremony, Nakedness, Shame, and the Deconsecration of Kingship in King Lear -- ''a dim farre of launce-skippe'': The Ethics of Shakespeare's Landscapes -- Shakespeare and the Invention of Landscape: The View from Dover Cliff -- What Lies Beneath -- Early Modern Dietaries and the Jews: The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta -- The Merchant of Venice and Pressured Conversions in Shakespeare's World -- Shylock the Old Clothes Man: Victorian Burlesques of The Merchant of Venice -- Shakespeare in the Jewish Cultural Association of Berlin during the Third Reich (1933-41) -- The Private Life of Public Plays -- Children's Shakespeare -- School of the Globe: Shakespeare for Children, and Me -- Preaching to the Unconverted: Staging Shakespeare for Children in the Low Countries -- Cinema: A New Shakespeare -- Theater on Film and Film on Theater in Hamlet -- Spectacle and Shakespeare on Film -- Aki ¨Kaurismaki's Hamlet Goes Business: A Socialist Shakespearean Film Noir Comedy -- World Shakespeares Today -- The Commitment to Shakespeare, or What Are We Celebrating Today? -- The Absence of Caliban: Shakespeare and Colonial Modernity -- Quoting Hamlet outside Britain in the Eighteenth Century -- New Intercultural Shakespeares in East Asia -- Shakespeare Studies and Hamlet in Korea -- Dialectical Progress of Femininity in Korean Shakespeare since 1990 -- The ''Cooking Stove'' vs. the ''Chinese Takeaway'': The Intercultural Representation of Shakespeare on the Hong Kong Stage -- Conflicts and Compromises between a Shakespearean Hamlet and a Chinese Prince: Three Chinese Operatic Adaptations.

Rewriting Shakespeare in a Japanese Context for the Page and the Stage -- Othello's Ghostly Remainders: Trauma and Postcolonial ''Dis-ease'' in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North -- Ideological Appropriation and Sexual Politics: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Ahmed Shawky's Masra' Cleopatra -- ''Thou art a strange fellow'': Dissonance and Discordance in Intercultural Shakespeares -- IN -- Epilogue -- ''Author, Author!'' -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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