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  1. Revenge drama in European Renaissance and Japanese theater
    from Hamlet to Madame Butterfly
    Contributor: Wetmore, Kevin J. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, N.Y

    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... more

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    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 through traditional drama / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama. Why are the two great plays of each tradition, plays regarded as defining their nations and eras, Kanadehon Chushingura and Hamlet, both revenge plays? What do the revenge dramas of Europe and Japan tell us about the periods that produced them and how have they been modernized to speak to contemporary audiences? By interrogating the manifestation of evil women, ghosts, satire, parody, and censorship, contributors such as Leonard Pronko, J. Thomas Rimer, Carol Sorgenfrei, Laurence Kominz explore these issues

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Wetmore, Kevin J. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780230611283; 0230611281; 1349371270; 9781349371273
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    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Revenge in literature; Japanese drama; European drama; Comparative literature; Comparative literature ; Japanese and Western; European drama ; Renaissance; Japanese drama; Revenge in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 289 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index