Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage

by Edited by Takashi Sasayama , J. R. Mulryne , Margaret Shewring

• ISBN13: 9780521129510
• ISBN10: 0521129516
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this book, originally published in 1999, leading Shakespeare scholars from Japan and the West broke new ground by studying the interaction of Japanese and Western conceptions of Shakespeare, and the assimilation of Shakespeare into richly traditional theatre practice. The first part deals with key twentieth-century moments in the production of Shakespeare, including the work of world-famous Japanese directors such as Ninagawa, Suzuki and Noda, while 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. Additional features include full-colour illustrations, a comprehensive chronology of Shakespeare performances in Japan and the English text of a celebrated Kyogen adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Japanese Shakespeare in Performance

The rebirth of Shakespeare in Japan: from the 1960s to the 1990s Akihiko Senda, translated by

One man's Hamlet in 1911 Japan: the Bungei Kyokai production in the Imperial

Koreya Senda and political Shakespeare

The perils and profits of interculturalism and the theatre art of

Hideki Noda's Shakespeare: the languages of performance

Japanese Shakespeare and English reviewers

Directing King Lear in Japanese translation

Shakespeare and the Traditional Japanese Stage

Preface to the Japanese translation of Renaissance Self-Fashioning

Tragedy and emotion Shakespeare and Chikamatsu

Conflicting authorities: the canonization of Zeami and Shakespeare

Shakespearean drama and the Noh: Theatrum Mundi and nothingness

Tradition and the Bunraku adapation of The Tempest

The performance of gendered identity in Shakespeare and Kabuki

Kyogenizing Shakespeare Shakespeareanizing Kyogen

The Braggart Samurai: a Kyogen adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor

Afterword

A playgoer's journey from Shakespeare to Japanese classical theatre and back

A Chronological Table of Shakespeare Productions in Japan, 1866-1994

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