Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. 笹山, 隆 (1930-)
2. Sasayama, Takashi, 1930-
3. Mulryne, J. R.
4. Shewring, Margaret.

Description

1. xiii, 357 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

1. "Shakespeare has been performed in Japan since shortly before the reopening of the country to the West in the Meiji period (1868-1912). This book breaks new ground by studying the interaction of Japanese and Western conceptions of Shakespeare, and the assimilation of Shakespeare into a richly traditional theatre practice." "The book is a collaboration between leading Shakespeare scholars from Japan and the West. The first part deals with key twentieth-century moments in the assimilation of Shakespeare, including the work of world-famous Japanese directors such as Ninagawa, Suzuki and Noda; the second part considers parallels and differences between Japanese and Western theatre over a longer timespan, focusing on the relationship of Shakespeare to traditional Japanese Noh, Kabuki, Bunraku and Kyogen."--Jacket.

Subject

1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Stage history > Japan
2. English drama > Appreciation > Japan
3. Theater > Japan > History
4. Toneelvoorstellingen
5. Bewerkingen

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. Rebirth of Shakespeare in Japan: from the 1960s to the 1990s / Akihiko Senda translated by Ryuta Minami -- One man's Hamlet in 1911 Japan: the Bungei Kyokai production in the Imperial Theatre / Brian Powell -- Koreya Senda and political Shakespeare / Dennis Kennedy and J. Thomas Rimer -- Perils and profits of interculturalism and the theatre art of Tadashi Suzuki / J.R. Mulryne -- Hideki Noda's Shakespeare: the languages of performance / Margaret Shewring -- Japanese Shakespeare and English reviewers / Tetsuo Kishi.
2. Tetsuo Anzai -- Preface to the Japanese translation of Renaissance self-fashioning / Stephen Greenblatt -- Tragedy and emotion: Shakespeare and Chikamatsu / Takashi Sasayama -- Conflicting authorities: the canonization of Zeami and Shakespeare / Gerry Yokota-Murakami -- tShakespearean drama and the Noh: theatrum mundi and nothingness / Izumi Momose -- Tradition and the Bunraku adaptation of The Tempest / Minoru Fujita.
3. Performance of gendered identity in Shakespeare and Kabuki / Yoko Takakuwa -- Kyogenising Shakespeare/Shakespeareanising Kyogen / Yasunari Takahashi -- The Braggart Samurai: a Kyogen adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor / Yasunari Takahashi.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain