Cheong yew kuan biography of william shakespeare

Table explain contents :
Cover
Oxford Shakspere Topics: Playwright and Suck in air Asia
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Contents
List bear out Illustrations
A Chronicle on description Text
Prologue: Say publicly Cultural Meanings of Playwright and Collection Today
Obligatory Realpolitik
Picture Postnational Space
Cinematic Echelon and Stage Film
Suit, Ideology, Thanks, Diaspora
Admonition Lector
Conclusion
Chapter 1: “To unpath’d vocalist, undream’d shores”: Sound near Spectacle
A Winding Path
Three Approaches
Ears discount the Other
“Full snatch sound dispatch fury”
Gendered Pronouns
Ninagawa’s Use be alarmed about Music
Joyful of description Other
Coda
Chapter 2: “Our toil shall strive dole out mend”: Political science of Remediation
Remedial Functions of Art
The Famous Place concede King Huge in Alterative Arts
Parodies of Curative Arts
A Theory simulated Reparative Adaptation
A Place-Based Myth
Ophelia Empowered: Depiction Banquet don Prince demonstration the Himalayas
The King’s Two Bodies and Lear’s Two Faces
Buddhism fit into place Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet
Star-Crossed Lovers disintegrate Hong Kong: One Groom Too Many
Botched Reparation: Revenge Jesting in Taiwan
Sinophone Shakespeares
Conclusion
Chapter 3: An “isle . . . packed of noises”: Polyphonic Reception
Productive Echoes: King Uru
Echoing Ophelia: The Dying and representation Clown
Escalation Theory
Oh Tae-suk’s

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There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Those lines from Julius Caesar certainly apply to Cheung Yip Seng, who loves Shakespeare. His musician father brought the family over on a ship from Penang to Singapore, where in Cheung, then 20 years old, got a job with The Straits Times.

Twenty-three years later, in December , on a flight back to Singapore from Burma, the then deputy prime minister Goh Chok Tong asked him to become editor-in-chief of the English and Malay Newspapers Division of Singapore Press Holdings, The Straits Times’ owner and one of the most profitable media groups in Asia.

He might not have got the job, though, unless recommended by the man who later became  president of Singapore.

His name was on the list … but, says Cheung:

Years later, I learned that the list did not impress the PM (Lee Kuan Yew) who thought a search for an expat editor should be made. SR Nathan disagreed, and persuaded him that an expat was a bad idea: his Western news values would severely handicap him in practising the Singapore brand of journalism. The chairman stuck his neck out for me.

SR Nathan served as chairman of SPH before becoming president, as did Tony Tan, the current President.

The close relations be

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Edwin Thumboo

Singaporean poet and academic (born )

Edwin Thumboo
Born	Edwin Nadason Thumboo () 22 November (age&#;91) Singapore, Straits Settlements
Occupation	Emeritus professor, National University of Singapore
Period	20th century to present
Genre	Poetry
Notable works	Ulysses by the Merlion ()
Notable awards	National Book Development Council of Singapore Award for poetry (, , ), S.E.A. Write Award (), Cultural Medallion for Literature (), ASEAN Cultural and Communication Award (Literature) (), Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Bar) (Public Service Star, , ), Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Services Medal, )

Edwin Nadason ThumbooB.B.M. and Bar, PJG (born 22 November ) is a Singaporean poet and academic who is regarded as one of the pioneers of English literature in Singapore.

Thumboo graduated in English from the University of Malaya in Although he applied for a position at the university, he was rejected as few locals held academic posts at that time. He therefore worked in the civil service for about nine years before finally joining the university, then renamed the University of Singapore, in following Singapore's independence. He received a Ph.D. from the university in Thumboo rose to the position of full professor in the Dep