Glocalization of manga and Shakespeare,

Shakespeare-related products that have almost nothing to dowith Shakespeare

“To quack, or not to quack.”

Is this Shakespeare ??

Kawaii可愛 Shakespeare:mascot for Shakespeare Forum in Tokyo (2012) Tokyo,

at Professor Minami’s college, ShirayuriCollege

Is This Shakespeare ?

Shakespeare = the most authoritative global writer

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Kawaii, stupid, manga-style, locally coming from Japan

1. Glocalization (Global + Local) of manga and Shakespeare

2. Shakespeare-related products that has almost nothing to do with Shakespeare

♡ Manga is originally from Japan, but now it has been globalized and localized---you have a large

number of Taiwan homegrown manga artists.

♡ Shakespeare is originally from England, but nowhis works has been globalized and localized.

Twelfth NightBy Nana Li

Born in China,Brought up in Sweden,Now in London

Manga Shakespeare Series(SelfMadeHero Publishing)

♡ Publisher : London♡ style: manga♡ artists: from everywhere

Living in UK.

Shakespearean products that are produced in one country often travels across national and cultural borders, not necessarily because they are ‘Shakespearean’, but because ‘Shakespeare’ is put in a global media/vehicle such as anime and manga.

Yilin Chen and Minami Ryuta, “Popular Shakespeares in East Asia: Local and Global Dissemination”, Shakespeare450 , Paris, 21-27 April 2014

Can you tell the differences?

Original, Korean Version Chinese translation version

By Won Soo Yeon

Won Soo Yeon, a top manhwaartist in South Korea

(right) Elio & Yvette, based on Romeo and Juliet

Taiwanese translation of Korean Manhwa versionsof Shakespeare

Cordelia and King of France

Hamlet as bishonen (a kawaii boy)

English text book version, Yanbian Daxue University, China.

Black Butler (黒執事)by Toboso Yana (2006- )

Three Shakespeare-related episodes/images.

1. Grell quoting “Wherefore art thou Romeo?”

2. Visual references to Hamlet

3. reference to to princes in London Tower(Richard III)

Grell’s version of “O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo.”

Black ButlerA Visual Reference to Hamlet with Yorick’s skull

Do you recognize this as coming from Hamlet?

First ClownThis same skull,sir, was Yorick's skull, the king'sjester.

HAMLETThis? . . . Let me see.

Takes the skullAlas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio (5.1)

The image suggests that Ciel (protagonist) is like Hamlet ----he is seeking revenge for his father’s death.

Alas, poor Pig-rick

Ham-let as a piggy

Shakespeare related products that cannot be easily recognized as coming from Shakespeare, --------but somehow we do. Why?

Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure), short for"costume play",is a type of performance art whose participants outfit themselves, with often-elaborate costumes and accessories, as a specific character. Characters are usually sourced in various Japanese and East Asian media, including manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, and fantasy movies.).

1st Annual Manga Shakespeare Cosplay and Performance Competition (2008)

Cosplay based on Manga Shakespeare Hamlet 37

Dress Up Shakespearean Actor magnet figures

These are toys are basing their commercial values on Shakespeare’s authority [a flagship model in the market of cultural capital], even though sometimes in parody.

If Shakespeare is not big, these toys wouldn’t sell.

http://rebrick.lego.com/en-US/bookmark/alas-poor-yorick/do0e7g

Some might say this sort of de-contextualized quotation or spin-offish second order creation are abuse of Shakespeare.

Yet I am no purist.

I would like to see and examine what these by-product (as it were) are doing with Shakespeare’s cultural authority by using Shakespeare’s works, as a sort of raw materials (as it were) to work on, rather than finished works.

Lady Capulet in Harumo Sanazaki,Romeo and Juliet (2001)

Creative re-creation of Shakespeare’s works in manga

Harumo Sanazaki, Macbeth

Creative re-creation of Shakespeare’s works in manga

manga adaptation of Hamlet by Ms. Meng Chen, 全力出版有限公司（台北）

Creative re-creation of Shakespeare’s works in manga

Kill Shakespeare T-shirt, with the artist’s autograph