Shakespeare Studies

Volume 46, 2008


CONTENTS


Articles
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SECTION I

Special Feature: Pacific Shakespeare

Introduction
Tom Bishop and Atsuhiko Hirota
1

Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History
Alexander C. Y. Huang
6

Into Something Rich and Strange
Takahashi Yasunari's Kyogen Adaptations of Shakespeare
Tetsuo Kishi
20

Rehearsal Shakespeare in New Zealand
Mark Houlahan
33

‘A Pair of Star-crossed Lovers Take Their Feet’
Polynesian Identities in Romeo and Tusi
Emma Cox
46


SECTION II


Macbeth and the Weird Sisters
Sandra Clark
62

The ‘Demon’ of Capital
Timon of Athens in Meiji Japan
Mihoko Suzuki
77

Book Review
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Paula Blank, Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Renaissance Man (Ikuko Kometani)
89

Performance Reviews
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From Drama to Ritual—Ryutopia's The Winter's Tale
Owl Spot, Tokyo, 30th August 2008 (Kaori Kobayashi)
93

Much Ado About Nothing (Sainokuni Shakespeare Series)
Aichi Kinro Kaikan, Nagoya, 8th November 2008,
Evening Performance
(Akiko Takamori)
98

The Shakespeare Society of Japan





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