Samurai Shakespeare : early modern tragedy in feudal Japan

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 9781913087197 (hardcover); 1913087190 (hardcover); 9781913087180 (ebook)
• Title: Samurai Shakespeare : early modern tragedy in feudal Japan
• Author/Editor: Graham Holderness
• Author Heading: Holderness, Graham
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Brighton : Edward Everett Root (出版)
• Publication Date: 2021; 著作権日付 : ©2021
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2021
• Extent: x, 173 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
• Other physical details: illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Size: 24 cm
• Place of Publication (Country Code): GB
• Text Language Code: eng
• Genre/Form Terms: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Film adaptations.
• Content Type: text
• Media Type: unmediated
• Carrier Type: volume
• Subject Heading: Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998--Criticism and interpretation; Ninagawa, Yukio--Criticism and interpretation; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Film adaptations; Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.; Ninagawa, Yukio.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Samurai films--History and criticism; Theater--Japan; Samurai films.; Theater.; Japan.
• LCC: PR2971.J3
• DDC: 822.33
• NDLC: KD652
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (General): "無"
• Note (Content): This highly original new book by a leading Shakespeare expert and cultural critic argues controversially that the 'samurai Shakespeare' of the Japanese cinematic and theatrical masterpiece-makers Akira Kurosawa and Yukio Ninagawa represents the greatest achievement of Japanese Shakespeare reproduction. Holderness argues that 'samurai Shakespeare' is both consistent with our own western engagement with Japan, and true to the spirit of Japanese culture. / Shakespeare was an exact contemporary of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yet when he was first imported into Japan, in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, the plays were performed in contemporary dress, not in the conventional British historical styles, and received as the modern counterpart of Ibsen and Shaw, Gorky and Chekhov. / Today in Japan the Edo past is lovingly preserved, reproduced and displayed. Almost 30 million international tourists enter Japan each year to visit the old capitals of Kyoto and Nara, drawn by the magic of Edo castles, ancient temples, swords and samurai, geishas and sumo, maple leaves and cherry blossom. At the same time Japan represents itself as a society of ultra-modernity, free from the burdens of the past. This book examines why and how early Japanese Shakespeare was assimilated to the modernising and westernising tendencies of the Meiji regime, and kept well away from that very recent but dangerous feudal past of Edo Japan to which at least some of the plays should surely have been seen to belong
• Note (Bibliography): Includes bibliographical references
• Collection (particular): 日本関係外国語図書
• Holding library: 国立国会図書館
• Call No.: KD652-D25
• Data Provider (Database): 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• Bibliographic ID (NDL): 030086928; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/030086928
• OCLC No.: 1110446717; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1110446717
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211