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...
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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, Clare
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Shakespeare in a New Perspective: An Introduction; Part I: Playhouses & Performances; 1. Approaching Shakespeare through Kabuki; 2. Theatre Structures, East and West: Some Basic Similarities; 3. Shakespeare and 'Hana': Some Parallels between Peter Brook's 1990 Production of La Tempête and Matsukaze; Part II: Literary History & Interpretation; 4. Shakespeare and Japanese Theatre: Artists' and Scholars' Use of the 'Exotic'
5. A Bridge Between Shakespeare and the Traditional Theatre of Japan6. A Voice from the Beyond − Ritual and Epiphany in Noh and Shakespeare; 7. Shakespeare's Ghosts and the Phantasms of Japanese Noh Plays: A Matter of Theatrical Technique; 8. Tradition and Innovation in the Noh Drama of Japan; Part III: Theory and Language; 9. Theatre Innovation in the West: Language, Action and Archetype; 10. Shakespeare, Eastern Theatre, and Literary Universals: Drama in the Context of Cognitive Science; Notes; Index
