Introduction: Local/Global Shakespeare

Introduction: Local/Global ShakespeareShakespeare, alias the Bard of Avon, is the poet and playwright of the English Renaissance, but we sense that he is still now alive around the globe.He is accepted by the non-English-speaking people, and his drama and poetry are translated into a lot of different languages, adapted, performed and appropriated in many corners of the world.Therefore, he is not only the possession of the West but that of the East.In other words, he is a cultural icon traveling the globe, as well as a national hero in England.