[KS] Korean Shakespeare-movies or -dramas?

[kevin parks]

Greetings,

This is perhaps slightly askew of your topic perhaps (since you ask for 
only TV dramas and movies), but there are also Korean Plays which are 
derived from Shakespeare's plots. I only know of one, but I imagine 
there are many others. The Sadari Movement Lab's /Spectrum/ was intended 
to be an experimental "Koreanized" reading of Hamlet. In the spirit of 
full disclosure: I wrote the music for this production (which ran at the 
Seoul Arts Center in October 1999). I am sure there must be other 
adaptions/appropriations/remixes of Shakespeare's plays to appear on 
Korean stages.

best,
Kevin Parks



Jan Creutzenberg wrote:
> Dear Koreanists,
>
> I am a student of theatre and currently working on a paper about the 
> Korean reception of Shakespeare's plays. Cinematic adaptions may have 
> an important influence on the way Shakespeare was and is seen in 
> Korea. While foreign Shakespeare-movies were shown in Korea (beginning 
> with Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth in 1917) as far as I know there exist no 
> Korean movies that are based on Shakespeare.
>
> Is this correct? I'm also interested in movies and TV-dramas that deal 
> with performances of Shakespeare plays as part of their plot. Do You 
> know anything that could help me?
>
> Greetings, Jan Creutzenberg