Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in
modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures.
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films,
and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely
English Romantic reception of King Lear is an important part of Shakespeare's
afterlife. This book investigates Anglo-American post-Romanticist readings
and appropriations of Lear as a seminal text on the relationship between
literature and politics, specifically succession as a philosophical...