Performing Shakespeare in Japan

, by Edited by Minami Ryuta , Ian Carruthers , John Gillies

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ISBN: 9780521148337 | 0521148332
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/3/2010

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This is a collection of fourteen essays on particular topics from over one hundred years of Shakespeare performance in Japan. In addition, there are four interviews with leading directors and one with a leading perfomer. Unlike the few existing books on Japanese Shakespeare, this book concentrates on modern and postmodern theater, from c. 1970, and contains contributions from both Japanese and Western scholars and theater practitioners.

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List of illustrations
List of contributions
Preface Takahashi Yasunari
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Early Modern and Traditional Theatre Productions
What do we mean by 'Japanese' Shakespeare?
Japan as 'half-civilized': and early Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Japan's construction of its national image in the late nineteenth century
Shakespeare in Kabuki
Osanai Kaoru's version of Romeo and Juliet, 1904
Some Noh adaptations of Shakespeare in English and Japanese
The Braggart Samurai: a Kyogen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor
Modern Productions (Post World War II)
Weaving the spider's web: interpretation of character in Kurosawa Akira's Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jo)
Innovation and continuity: two decades of Deguchi Norio's Shakespeare Theatre Company
Tragedy with laughter: Suzuki Tadashi's The Tale of Lear
The Chronicle of Macbeth: Suzuki method acting in Australia, 1992
The rose and the bamboo: Noda Hideki's Sandaime
Shakespeare reinvented on the contemporary Japanese stage
Juliet's girlfriends: the Takarazuka Revue Company and the ShÃ´jo culture
Directing 'Japanese Shakespeare' locally and universally: an interview with Gerald Murphy
Interviews with Directors and Actors
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Afterword: Shakespeare removed: some reflections on the localization of Shakespeare in Japan
Index
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