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Title:

Revenge drama in European Renaissance and Japanese theater : from Hamlet to Madame Bufferfly / edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

viii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Japanese drama--History and criticism.
European drama--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
Revenge in literature.
Literature, Comparative--Japanese and Western.

Other Authors:

Wetmore, Kevin J., 1969-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-284) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "Thinking upon revenge" / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- pt. 1. Revenge contexts and comparisons. Closed and open societies: the revenge dramas of Japan, Spain, and England / Leonard C. Pronko -- Unsexed and disembodied: female avengers in Japan and England / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei -- "Avenge me!": ghosts in English renaissance and Kabuki revenge dramas / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Kabuki parodies of blood revenge / Laurence Kominz -- Revenge on screen: Imai Tadashi's Night drum / Keiko McDonald -- Censoring vengeance: revenge dramas and tragedies during the Allied Occupation of Japan / David Jortner -- pt. 2. Chūshingura: east and west. The horizontal Chūshingura: western translations and adaptations prior to World War II / Aaron M. Cohen -- Chūshingura in the 1980s: rethinking the story of the Forty-seven Rōnin / Henry D. Smith II -- Appendix: Chūshingura-related books of the1980s. One legacy of Madame Butterfly: Chūshingura as a contemporary opera / J. Thomas Rimer -- Gender construction and Chūshingura as a Japanese national legend / Junko Saeki -- "The play's the thing": cross-cultural adaptation of revenge plays thorugh traditional drama / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

ISBN:

0230602894 (hbk.)
9780230602892 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2008299790

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)