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Shakespeare, Cinema, China
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Monday 16th February 2026
13:00-14:00 
Auditorium, The McClay Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaker<\/strong>:
Professor Mark Thornton<\/strong> Burnett<\/strong> is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen\u2019s University Belfast, UK. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience<\/em> (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), Constructing \u2018Monsters\u2019 in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture<\/em> (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace<\/em> (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007; 2nd<\/sup> ed. 2012), Shakespeare and World Cinema<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) and \u2018Hamlet\u2019 and World Cinema<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is series editor of the Arden Shakespeare series, \u2018Shakespeare and Adaptation\u2019.

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Abstract<\/strong>:
In this talk, I explore the deep connection between the uses of Shakespeare in cinema and China\u2019s evolving cultural, economic and social significances. Shakespeare figures variously in Chinese cinema \u2013 as echo and adaptation, as allusion and full-blown transposition, as semi-quotation and vernacular rewrite, as prompt for comic business, and as an exercise in nostalgia. Introducing a broad sweep of historical examples, and centring on two recent Hamlet<\/em> adaptations \u2013 The Banquet<\/em> (dir. Feng Xiaogang, 2006) and Prince of the Himalayas<\/em> (dir. Sherwood Hu, 2006) \u2013 I argue that Shakespeare and China share a fruitful and exciting relationship, one allied to the past, rooted in the present, and enlivened by continuing intercultural exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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