Samurai Shakespeare Past and Future Japan in Theatre and Film
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- Englisch ausgewählt
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
31.05.2020
Verlag
Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. LtdSeitenzahl
192
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,7/1,5 cm
Gewicht
439 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-913087-19-7
This highly original new book by a leading Shakespeare expert and cultural critic is a book of convergences. First, the collision between Japan and Shakespeare, who was imported by the Meiji Empire in the 1880s, along with western technology and culture, as a contemporary dramatist. Second, the later historicist juxtaposition of Shakespeare's plays with the 600-year long samurai era, as engineered by Japanese cinema and theatre directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Yukio Ninagawa, whose major productions of Shakespeare's tragedies form the focus of this study. And third, the encounter between these masterpieces of Japanese Shakespeare adaptation and the author's own idiosyncratic perspective on the world of the samurai, shaped over a lifetime of diverse cultural influences. Here the focus is much broader and more eclectic: 1950s war films, CND anti-nuclear propaganda, Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice, Edward Zwick's film The Last Samurai. Nothing is off limits in this personal testimony, as the author writes frankly about his wife's Buddhism, his collection of samurai swords, his problems with alcohol, his wanderings in Kew Gardens, his experience of Coronavirus lockdown. This frank revelation of how a specific hermeneutic perspective is formed throws light on Japanese Shakespeare, on the nature of critical interpretation, and on the role of imagination in our reception of literature and drama.
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