Based on presentations made at a seminar held during the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress held in Los Angeles in April 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Some Noh adaptations of Shakespeare in English and Japanese / Ueda Munakata Kuniyoshi. What do we mean by "Japanese" Shakespeare? / Anzai Tetsuo -- Japan as "half-civilized" : an early Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Japan's construction of its national image in the late nineteenth century / Yoshihara Yukari -- Shakespeare in Kabuki / James R. Brandon -- Osanai Kaoru's version of Romeo and Juliet, 1904 / Matsumoto Shinko -- Some Noh adaptations of Shakespeare in English and Japanese / Ueda Munakata Kuniyoshi. The rose and the bamboo : Noda Hideki's Sandaime Richado / Suzuki Masae. Weaving the spider's web : interpretaton of character in Kurosawa Akira's Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jo) / Paula Von Loewenfeldt -- Innovation and continuity : two decades of Deguchi Norio's Shakespeare Theatre Company / Suematsu Michiko -- Tragedy with laughter : Suzuki Tadashi's The Tale of Lear / Takahashi Yasunari -- The Chronicle of Macbeth : Suzuki method acting in Australia, 1992 / Ian Carruthers -- The rose and the bamboo : Noda Hideki's Sandaime Richado / Suzuki Masae. Directing "Japanese Shakespeare" locally and universally : an interview with Gerard Murphy / Ted Motohashi. Juliet's girlfrieds : the Takarazuka Revue Company and the Shojo culture / Ohtani Tomoko -- Directing "Japanese Shakespeare" locally and universally : an interview with Gerard Murphy / Ted Motohashi.
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