Shakespeare East and West

Minoru Fujita Osaka University, Japan. Lenoard Pronko Pomona College, Claremont, USA

Introduction Shakespeare in a New Perspective, Minoru Fujita; Part I Playhouses and Performances; Chapter 1 Approaching Shakespeare Through Kabuki, Leonard C. Pronko; Chapter 2 Theatre Structures, East and West – Some Basic Similarities, Tetsuo Anzai; Chapter 3 Shakespeare and ‘Hana’, Poh Sim Plowright; Part II Literary History & Interpretation; Chapter 4 Shakespeare And Japanese Theatre, Andrew Gerstle; Chapter 5 A Bridge between Shakespeare and the Traditional Theatre of Japan, Toshiro Date; Chapter 6 A Voice from the Beyond – Ritual and Epiphany in Noh and Shakespeare, Masahiro Takenaka; Chapter 7 Shakespeare’s Ghosts and the Phantasms of Japanese Noh Plays, Peggy Muñoz Simonds; Chapter 8 Cultural Canons, East and West, Gerry Yokota-Murakami; Part III Theory and Language; Chapter 9 Theatre Innovation in the West, Ronald J. Lee; Chapter 10 Shakespeare, Eastern Theatre, and Literary Univers ALS, Patrick Colm Hogan;