Revenge drama in European Renaissance and Japanese theater : from Hamlet to Madame Bufferfly / edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Contributor Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr., 1969-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Descriptionviii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Introduction: "Thinking upon revenge" / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- pt. 1. Revenge contexts and comparisons. Closed and open societies: the revenge dramas of Japan, Spain, and England / Leonard C. 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, Jr. -- Kabuki parodies of blood revenge / Laurence Kominz -- Revenge on screen: Imai Tadashi's Night drum / Keiko McDonald -- Censoring vengeance: revenge dramas and tragedies during the Allied Occupation of Japan / David Jortner -- pt. 2. 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 Forty-seven Ronin / Henry D. Smith II -- Appendix: Chushingura-related books of the1980s. 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 thorugh traditional drama / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-284) and index.

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