Performing Shakespeare in Japan
Introduction Minami Ryuta, Ian Carruthers, John Gillies Part I: Early modern and traditional theatre productions What do we mean by ‘Japanese’ Shakespeare? Anzai Tetsuo Japan as ‘half-civilized’: an early Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Japan’s construction of its national image in the late nineteenth century Yoshihara Yukari Shakespeare in Kabuki James …