Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage

Abstract

Introduction Ronnie Mulryne Part I. Japanese Shakespeare in Performance: 1. The rebirth of Shakespeare in Japan: from the 1960s to the 1990s Akihiko Senda, translated by Ryuta Minami 2. One man's Hamlet in 1911 Japan: the Bungei Kyokai production in the Imperial Theatre Brian Powell 3. Koreya Senda and political Shakespeare Dennis Kennedy and J. Thomas Rimer 4. The perils and profits of interculturalism and the theatre art of Tadashi Suzuki Ronnie Mulryne 5. Hideki Noda's Shakespeare: the languages of performance Margaret Shewring 6. Japanese Shakespeare and English reviewers Tetsuo Kishi 7. Directing King Lear in Japanese translation Tetsuo Anzai Part II. Shakespeare and the Traditional Japanese Stage: 8. Preface to the Japanese translation of Renaissance Self-Fashioning Stephen Greenblatt 9. Tragedy and emotion: Shakespeare and Chikamatsu Takashi Sasayama 10. Conflicting authorities: the canonization of Zeami and Shakespeare Gerry Yokota-Murakami 11. Shakespearean drama and the Noh: Theatrum Mundi and nothingness Izumi Momose 12. Tradition and the Bunraku adapation of The Tempest Minoru Fujita 13. The performance of gendered identity in Shakespeare and Kabuki Yoko Takakuwa 14. Kyogenizing Shakespeare Shakespeareanizing Kyogen Yasunari Takahashi 15. The Braggart Samurai: a Kyogen adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor Yasunari Takahashi Part III. Afterword: 16. A playgoer's journey from Shakespeare to Japanese classical theatre and back Robert Hapgood Part IV. A Chronological Table of Shakespeare Productions in Japan, 1866-1994 Ryuta Minami.

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