Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible

Miriam Leung Che Lau

doi:10.1017/9781108908023.007

Caesar and Lear in Hong Kong: Appropriating Shakespeare to Express the Inexpressible

Miriam Leung Che Lau^*

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School of Continuing Education

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Abstract

My article discusses the emergence of a distinctive Hong Kong Shakespeare and a newfound Hong Kong identity in Hardy Tsoi’s Julius Caesar (2012) and Shamshuipo Lear (2015), where Tsoi merely appropriates Shakespeare to illustrate the socio-political problems of Hong Kong, thus alluding to Dennis Kennedy’s argument of “Shakespeare without Shakespeare”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Shakespeare And The City
Editors	Emma Smith
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	93-106
Number of pages	14
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108908023
ISBN (Print)	9781108830539
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108908023.007
Publication status	Published - 4 Sept 2020

Publication series

Name	Shakespeare Survey
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Volume	73

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