
The Japanese Shakespeare
Language and Context in the Translations of Tsubouchi Shōyō
- 232 pages
- English
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The Japanese Shakespeare
Language and Context in the Translations of Tsubouchi Shōyō
About this book
Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi's Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi's place as "the Japanese Shakespeare."
Shakespeare translation is one of the achievements of modern Japanese culture, and no one is more associated with that achievement than the writer and scholar Tsubouchi Sh?y? (1859–1935). This book looks at how Tsubouchi received Shakespeare in the context of his native literature and his strategies for bridging the gaps between Shakespeare's rhetoric and his developing language. Offering a significant contribution to the field of global Shakespeare and literary translation, Gallimore explores dominant stylistic features of the early twentieth-century Shakespeare translations of Tsubouchi and analyses the translations within larger linguistic, historical, and cultural traditions in local Japanese, universal Chinese, and spiritual Western elements.
This book will appeal to any student, researcher, or scholar of literary translation, particularly those interested in the complexities of Shakespeare in translation and Japanese language, culture, and society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 In Search of Shōyō
- 2 Shōyō’s Shakespeare
- 3 A Voice for Shakespeare in Modern Japan
- 4 Staging Shōyō
- Conclusion: Shōyō’s Field
- Index