For those of you who want to finish watching Wu's production of The Tempest, click here to watch all 2 hours and 50 minutes of it! http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/tempest-wu-hsingkuo-2009/. You can also find links to dozens of other Shakespearean 'global' productions at the Global Shakespeares website, some of which you should consider watching for your group presentations.
Be sure to read the excerpt from Huang's book, Chinese Shakespeares, entitled "Why Does Everyone Need Chinese Opera?" As you read it, consider what Huang feels are the useful and dangerous aspects to staging Shakespeare in this Chinese art form. How can it be effective and help us see a new (or possibly, more traditional) Shakespeare...and how can it detract from the true power of Shakespeare's art as well as the tradition of xiqu itself?
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