Shakespeare in JapanSince 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. It considers the problems of translation both cultural and linguistic, and includes an extensive illustrated survey of the most significant Shakespearean productions and adaptations, and the contrasting responses of Japanese and Western critics. |
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... Ibsen among other writers, before it was disbanded in 1913. Thus, Shoyo functioned as one of the pioneers of the new theatre movement which aimed at starting a new genre corresponding to contemporary Western drama . The new genre was ...
... Ibsen among other writers, before it was disbanded in 1913. Thus, Shoyo functioned as one of the pioneers of the new theatre movement which aimed at starting a new genre corresponding to contemporary Western drama . The new genre was ...
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... Ibsen , Chekhov , Gorky , George Bernard Shaw and trams . Of course Shakespearean poetic drama belongs to the late - sixteenth and early - seventeenth centur- ies and is not , in any historical sense , modern . Shakespeare was certainly ...
... Ibsen , Chekhov , Gorky , George Bernard Shaw and trams . Of course Shakespearean poetic drama belongs to the late - sixteenth and early - seventeenth centur- ies and is not , in any historical sense , modern . Shakespeare was certainly ...
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... Ibsen or Shaw. Also, as Shoyo himself liked to point out, the Japanese were politically and socially far closer to feudalism than contemporary British or American readers and audiences. Indeed, the moment of Shake- speare's arrival was ...
... Ibsen or Shaw. Also, as Shoyo himself liked to point out, the Japanese were politically and socially far closer to feudalism than contemporary British or American readers and audiences. Indeed, the moment of Shake- speare's arrival was ...
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... Ibsen , Shaw , O'Neill or Brecht , he shows how differently his characters see and feel their own situations or understand values like honour or revenge . This produces and in a sense organizes or orchestrates mixed responses in the ...
... Ibsen , Shaw , O'Neill or Brecht , he shows how differently his characters see and feel their own situations or understand values like honour or revenge . This produces and in a sense organizes or orchestrates mixed responses in the ...
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... Ibsen was new. According to Shoyo, Shakespeare represented Western romantic drama, and Ibsen represented modern realistic drama. Such a view might just be defended, and its conception of Shakespeare's significance had precedents in ...
... Ibsen was new. According to Shoyo, Shakespeare represented Western romantic drama, and Ibsen represented modern realistic drama. Such a view might just be defended, and its conception of Shakespeare's significance had precedents in ...
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