Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre From Hamlet to Madame Butterfly

by Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780230602892
• ISBN10: 0230602894
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with the revenge tradition in European Renaissance drama.

Author Biography

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is Associate Professor of Theatre, Loyola Marymount University.  He is the author of Athenian Sun in an African Sky, Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African-American Theatre, The Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion, and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films, and the co-author of Shakespeare and Youth Culture.  He is the co-editor of Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance and was the Founding Artistic Director of the Unseam’d Shakespeare Company. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: "Thinking Upon Revenge"	p. 1
Revenge Contexts and Comparisons
Closed and Open Societies: The Revenge Dramas of Japan, Spain, and England	p. 29
Unsexed and Disembodied: Female Avengers in Japan and England	p. 45
"Avenge Me!": Ghosts in English Renaissance and Kabuki Revenge Dramas	p. 75
Kabuki Parodies of Blood Revenge	p. 91
Revenge on Screen: Imai Tadashi's Night Drum	p. 119
Censoring Vengeance: Revenge Dramas and Tragedies during the Allied Occupation of Japan	p. 129
Chushingura: East and West
The Horizontal Chushingura: Western Translations and Adaptations Prior to World War II	p. 153
Chushingura in the 1980s: Rethinking the Story of the Forty-seven Ronin	p. 187
Chushingura-Related Books of the 1980s	p. 213
One Legacy of Madame Butterfly: Chushingura as a Contemporary Opera	p. 217
Gender Construction and Chushingura as a Japanese National Legend	p. 237
"The Play's the Thing": Cross-cultural Adaptation of Revenge Plays through Traditional Drama	p. 245
Contributors	p. 267
Glossary	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 285
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