http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20484 2026-04-17T10:57:29Z 2026-04-17T10:57:29Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20495 2019-04-01T11:04:30Z 2016-12-30T00:00:00Z

Theatre Reviews

2016-12-30T00:00:00Z Kawachi, Yoshiko http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20493 2019-04-01T11:09:47Z 2016-12-30T00:00:00Z

Hamlet and Japanese Men of Letters Kawachi, Yoshiko Shakespeare has exerted a powerful influence on Japanese literature since he was accepted in the second half of the nineteenth century. Particularly Hamlet has had a strong impact on Japanese men of letters and provided them with the impetus to revive the play in contemporary literature. In this paper I discuss how they have utilized Hamlet for their creative activity and enriched Japanese literature.

2016-12-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20494 2019-04-01T11:05:55Z 2016-12-30T00:00:00Z

Book Reviews

2016-12-30T00:00:00Z Yoshihara, Yukari http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20492 2019-04-01T11:16:29Z 2016-12-30T00:00:00Z

Toward “Reciprocal Legitimation” between Shakespeare’s Works and Manga Yoshihara, Yukari In April 2014, Nihon Hoso Kyokai (NHK: Japan Broadcasting Company) aired a short animated film titled “Ophelia, not yet”. Ophelia, in this animation, survives, as she is a backstroke champion. This article will attempt to contextualize the complex negotiations, struggles and challenges between high culture and pop culture, between Western culture and Japanese culture, between authoritative cultural products and radicalized counterculture consumer products (such as animation), to argue that it would be more profitable to think of the relationships between highbrow/lowbrow, Western/non-Western, male versus female, heterosexual versus non-heterosexual, not simply in terms of dichotomies or domination/subordination, but in terms of reciprocal enrichment in a never-ending process of mutual metamorphoses.

2016-12-30T00:00:00Z