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Japanese studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

This volume brings together some of the best essays written by Japanese scholars in the field. It presents some fresh thoughts on various aspects of Shakespeare and other English Renaissance dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe, John Fletcher, Lady Elizabeth Cary, and Lady Mary Wroth, and of David Garrick and Samuel Johnson
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780874136739, 0874136733
38732233
Doctor Faustus and the appearance of the devil / Arata Ide
Time allowed for exits in Shakespeare's plays / Mariko Ichikawa
The merchant of Venice and Japanese culture / Yoshiko Kawachi
Money and sexuality in Measure for measure / Yukari Yoshihara
The stage tableau and iconography of Macbeth / Soji Iwasaki
"And left them more rich for what they yielded" : representation of woman's body and the heterogeneous economies in The winter's tale / Miki Suehiro
Canibal and caliban : The tempest and the discourse of cannibalism / Ted Motohashi
Representations of female subjectivity in Elizabeth Cary's The tragedy of Mariam and Mary Wroth's Love's victory / Akiko Kusunoki
Fletcher versus "Fletcher" / Shoichiro Kawai
The primacy of the sense of the body over the sense of the line : David Garrick's acting of Shakespeare / Manabu Noda
Individuality in Johnson's Shakespeare criticism / Noriyuki Harada