Template:Did you know nominations/Spring Willow Society
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The result was: promoted by SL93talk 07:38, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Spring Willow Society
... that the Spring Willow Society probably staged the first full-length Shakespearean play in China?
Source: *Liu, Siyuan (2007). "Adaptation as Appropriation: Staging Western Drama in the First Western-Style Theatres in Japan and China". Theatre Journal. 59 (3): 411–429. doi:10.1353/tj.2007.0159. JSTOR25070065. The significance of Lu's Othello also lies in the fact that it was most likely the first production of a full Shakespearean play in China, not a dramatization based on Lin Shu's influential rendition of the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare.