Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is a professor of Theatre Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

_Thinking Upon Revenge_: An Introduction - Kevin J. Wetmore * PART I: REVENGE CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS * Closed and Open Societies: The Revenge Dramas of Japan, Spain and England - Leonard 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 * Classical Adultery/Revenge Drama from Stage to Screen: Imai Tadashi_s Night Drum - Keiko McDonald * Kabuki Parodies of Blood Revenge - Lawrence Kominz * Censoring Vengeance: Revenge Dramas and Tragedies during the Allied Occupation of Japan - David Jortner * Performing Bushido: Revenge and American Kabuki Replications - Aaron D. Anderson * PART II: CHUSHINGURA: EAST AND WEST  The Horizontal Chushingura: Western Translations and Adaptations Prior to World War II - Aaron M. Cohen * Chushingura in the 1980s: Rethinking the Story of the 47 Ronin - Henry D. Smith II * One Legacy of Madame Butterfly: Chushingura as a Contemporary Opera - J. Thomas Rimer * Gender Construction and Chushingura as a Japanese National Legend - Junko Saeki * The Play_s the Thing: Cross-cultural Adaptation of Revenge Plays through Traditional Drama - Kevin J. Wetmore