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Author : Takashi Sasayama,J. R. Mulryne,Margaret Shewring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521470438
Leading Japanese and Western Shakespeare scholars study the interaction of Japanese and Western conceptions of Shakespeare.
Author : Ryuta Minami,Ian Carruthers,John Gillies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521782449
This is a collection of fourteen essays on particular topics from over one hundred years of Shakespeare performance in Japan. In addition, there are four interviews with leading directors and one with a leading perfomer. Unlike the few existing books on Japanese Shakespeare, this book concentrates on modern and postmodern theater, from c. 1970, and contains contributions from both Japanese and Western scholars and theater practitioners.
Author : Tetsuo Kishi,Graham Bradshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826492708
Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This work considers the cultural and linguistic problems of translation and includes an illustrated survey of the most significant Shakespearean productions and adaptations, and the contrasting responses of Japanese and Western critics.
Author : Tetsuhito Motoyama,Rosalind Fielding,Fumiaki Konno
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350116269
An anthology of three exciting Japanese adaptations of Shakespeare that engage with issues such as changing family values, racial diversity, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and terrorism, together with a contextualizing introduction. The anthology makes contemporary Japanese adaptations of Shakespeare by three independent theatre companies available to a wider English language audience. The three texts are concerned with the social issues Japan faces today and Japan's perception of its cultural history. This unique collection is thus both a valuable resource for the fields of Shakespeare and adaptation studies as well as for a better understanding of contemporary Japanese theatre.
Author : Minoru Fujita,Leonard Pronko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134240821
The International Shakespeare Association meeting, held in Tokyo in August of 1991, was regarded by many of the participating academics as a milestone in terms of the quality of the papers given and extent to which the intercultural and cross-cultural study of Shakespeare had been developed. This volume contains the principal contributions (10) to the panel on Acting and Language in Shakespeare and Eastern Drama, specially edited for publication by Minoru Fujita who teaches at the Graduate School of Culture, University of Osaka, and Leonard Pronko, Professor of Theatre at Pomona College, Claremont, California. The papers are presented in three sections: Playhouses and Performances, Literary History, and Interpretation and Theoretical Issues.
Author : Conor Hanratty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350087378
Yukio Ninagawa (1935–2016) was Japan's foremost director of Shakespeare whose productions were acclaimed around the world. His work was lauded for its spectacular imagery, its inventive use of Japanese iconography and its striking fusion of Eastern and Western theatre traditions. Over a career spanning six decades, Ninagawa directed 31 of Shakespeare's plays, many of them, including Hamlet, on multiple occasions. His productions of Macbeth, The Tempest, Pericles, Twelfth Night and Cymbeline became seminal events in world Shakespeare production during the last 30 years. This is the first English-language book dedicated exclusively to Ninagawa's work. Featuring an overview of his extraordinary output, this study considers his Shakespearean work within the context of his overall career. Individual chapters cover Ninagawa's approach Shakespeare and Greek tragedy, in particular his landmark productions of Macbeth and Medea, and his eight separate productions of Hamlet. The volume includes a detailed analysis of the Sai-no-Kuni Shakespeare Series – in which Ninagawa set out to stage all of Shakespeare's plays in his hometown of Saitama, north of Tokyo. Written by Conor Hanratty, who studied with Ninagawa for over a year, it offers a unique and unprecedented glimpse into the work and approach of one of the world's great theatre directors.
Author : Ronald Cavaye,Paul Griffith,Akihiko Senda
Publisher : Kodansha
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 477002987X
Japan has a wide range of unique, highly refined performing arts that haveeveloped over centuries. This guide provides a brief history andntroduction to the features of each genre, together with recommendations oflays that are accessible to non-Japanese audiences. Brief synopses arerovided to approximately fifty selected plays, and well-known popularompanies, actors, writers, and directors are introduced. The text is widelyllustrated, and includes information about theatre listings, how to getickets, and which plays are available on DVD. It will be invaluable fornyone planning a visit to Japan and keen to experience its theatre firsthand,s well as providing additional insights for students of Japanese theatrend literature.
Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1913087190
This highly original new book by a leading Shakespeare expert and cultural critic argues controversially that the 'samurai Shakespeare' of the Japanese cinematic and theatrical masterpiece-makers Akira Kurosawa and Yukio Ninagawa represents the greatest achievement of Japanese Shakespeare reproduction. Holderness argues that 'samurai Shakespeare' is both consistent with our own western engagement with Japan, and true to the spirit of Japanese culture. / Shakespeare was an exact contemporary of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yet when he was first imported into Japan, in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, the plays were performed in contemporary dress, not in the conventional British historical styles, and received as the modern counterpart of Ibsen and Shaw, Gorky and Chekhov. / Today in Japan the Edo past is lovingly preserved, reproduced and displayed. Almost 30 million international tourists enter Japan each year to visit the old capitals of Kyoto and Nara, drawn by the magic of Edo castles, ancient temples, swords and samurai, geishas and sumo, maple leaves and cherry blossom. At the same time Japan represents itself as a society of ultra-modernity, free from the burdens of the past. This book examines why and how early Japanese Shakespeare was assimilated to the modernising and westernising tendencies of the Meiji regime, and kept well away from that very recent but dangerous feudal past of Edo Japan to which at least some of the plays should surely have been seen to belong. / When Shakespeare was finally integrated with the Edo past, it was to a contradictory mixture of acclaim and condemnation. In 1957 Akira Kurosawa released his great film Kumonosujo, known in the west as Throne of Blood, where the plot of Macbeth, without Shakespeare's language, is brilliantly relocated to feudal Japan, and which has been described variously as 'the most complete translation of Shakespeare into film' and as 'not really Shakespeare at all'. Kurosawa followed Kumonosujo much later in 1985 with his samurai version of King Lear, Ran. In the theatre Yukio Ninagawa staged in 1980 what is perhaps the greatest ever Japanese production of Shakespeare, his Macbeth set in mediaeval Japan. Ninagawa produced The Tempest in an equally traditional style, as 'A Rehearsal of a Noh Play on the Island of Sado' (the island to which Zeami, the great playwright of Noh, was exiled). Across a period of 30 years (1957-1987) these great theatre and cinema artists finally resolved the conflicts between Shakespeare and Japan by setting the plays back into their own beloved but disputed past. These 'Samurai Shakespeare' productions were initially received in the west and in Japan with enthusiasm, though not without some critical reflection on the dangers of 'exoticism' and 'orientalism.' / However, after this great florescence of 'samurai Shakespeare' (1957-1987), the theatre in Japan returned to its Shingeki roots, preferring modernity to tradition. The phenomenon of Edo Shakespeare became a definitive cultural moment, and many subsequent productions allude or pay homage to the work of Fukuda, Kurosawa and Ninagawa. However ultra-modern a Japanese Shakespeare production may be, it has had the facility to acknowledge the country's own past as one of Shakespeare's multiple global histories. At the same time 'Samurai Shakespeare' can be found alive and well in other Japanese media, especially Manga. / This is an important study of the complexity and contradictions of crucial cultural and historical moments in Japanese history, and in the relations between Japan and the West. / Contents: Introduction: Shakespeare and Japan / 1 'Show me a samurai' western admiration of Edo culture, 1890-1900. / 2 Modernity and tradition in Japanese theatre 1900-1957. / 3 Tsuneari Fukuda / 4 Akira Kurosawa / 5 Yukio Ninagawa / 6 'Samurai Shakespeare' in Japanese theatre 1980-2000. / 7 Conclusion: Manga Shakespeare. / Bibliography, Index.
Author : Minoru Toyoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015038799360
Author : Robert Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136913426
This is a selection of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists. Master of the marionette and popular dramas, he had, until the publication of this book, remained unknown to western readers owing to the difficulty of translating the work into English. The introduction provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Japanese drama which will assist the reader in better understanding the plays.
Author : Yoshiko Kawachi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015046880574
This volume brings together some of the best essays written by Japanese scholars in the field. It presents some fresh thoughts on various aspects of Shakespeare and other English Renaissance dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe, John Fletcher, Lady Elizabeth Cary, and Lady Mary Wroth, and of David Garrick and Samuel Johnson.
Author : Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1472555287
Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This account explores the conditions of Shakespeare's reception and assimilation, and considers the problems of translation and contrasting responses.
Author : Mariko Ichikawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107020351
The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.
Author : Poonam Trivedi,Minami Ryuta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135272258
In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia. Emerging out of the view that it is in "play" or performance, and particularly in intercultural / multicultural performance, that the cutting edge of Shakespeare studies is to be found, the essays in this volume pay close attention to the modes of transference of the language of the text into the alternative languages of Asian theatres; to the history and politics of the performance of Shakespeare in key locations in Asia; to the new Asian experimentation with indigenous forms via Shakespeare and the consequent revitalizing and revising of the traditional boundaries of genre and gender; and to Shakespeare as a cultural capital world wide. Focusing specifically on the work of major directors in the central and emerging areas of Asia – Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines - the chapters in this volume encompass a broader and more representative swath of Asian performances and locations in one book than has been attempted till now.
Author : Alexa Alice Joubin
Publisher : Oxford Shakespeare Topics
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198703563
Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK. These adaptations break new ground in sound and spectacle; they serve as a vehicle for artistic and political remediation or, in some cases, the critique of the myth of reparative interpretations of literature; they provide a forum where diasporic artists and audiences can grapple with contemporary issues; and, through international circulation, they are reshaping debates about the relationship between East Asia and Europe. Bringing film and theatre studies together, this book sheds new light on the two major genres in a comparative context and reveals deep structural and narratological connections among Asian and Anglophone performances. These adaptations are products of metacinematic and metatheatrical operations, contestations among genres for primacy, or experimentations with features of both film and theatre.
