Performing Shakespeare in Japan
Edited By Minami Ryu
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Description for Performing Shakespeare in Japan
hardcover. A collection of essays and interviews on Shakespeare performance in Japan. Editor(s): Ryuta, Minami; Carruthers, Ian; Gillies, John. Num Pages: 274 pages, 20 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 26. Weight in Grams: 927.
Shakespeare has an astonishingly rich and varied performance tradition in Japan, stretching from the Westernizing and modernizing ferment of the nineteenth-century Meiji era to the postmodern performance culture. How has the tradition evolved? Where is it going? How is it to be accounted for in theatrical and cultural terms? What does it mean to perform Shakespeare in Japan? Such questions are raised in this 2001 book's introduction and pursued in fourteen essays on key aspects, moments and personalities in the performance tradition. These are followed by provocative interviews with four leading directors (Deguchi Norio, Ninagawa Yukio, Suzuki Tadashi and Noda ... Read more
Shakespeare has an astonishingly rich and varied performance tradition in Japan, stretching from the Westernizing and modernizing ferment of the nineteenth-century Meiji era to the postmodern performance culture. How has the tradition evolved? Where is it going? How is it to be accounted for in theatrical and cultural terms? What does it mean to perform Shakespeare in Japan? Such questions are raised in this 2001 book's introduction and pursued in fourteen essays on key aspects, moments and personalities in the performance tradition. These are followed by provocative interviews with four leading directors (Deguchi Norio, Ninagawa Yukio, Suzuki Tadashi and Noda ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521782449
SKU
V9780521782449
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About Edited By Minami Ryu
Minami Ryuta is Associate Professor of English at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. He has co-edited, with Ian Carruthers and John Gillies, a CD-ROM on Deguchi Norio's productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Department of Theatre and Dance, La Trobe University. He also compiled a chronology of Shakespearean performances in Japan for Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage ... Read more
Reviews for Performing Shakespeare in Japan
Review of the hardback: 'This excellent book … makes you want to board the next flight to Tokyo and take up the challenge.' The Times Literary Supplement