Book Reviews

Yoshiko Matsuda; Lan Zhou; Yasumasa Okamoto

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.21.11

Authors

Yoshiko Matsuda Takasaki University of Health and Welfare, Japan
Lan Zhou School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China
Yasumasa Okamoto Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.21.11

Abstract

Emi Hamana, Shakespeare Performances in Japan: Intercultural-Multi-cultural-Translingual. Yokohama: Shumpusha, 2019. Pp. 188.

Li Jun, Popular Shakespeare in China: 1993-2008. Beijing: University of International Business and Economics Press, 2016. Pp. 199.

Soji Iwasaki’s Japanese Translation of Shakespeare, The Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint. Revised edition. Tokyo: Kokubunsha, 2019. Pp. 242.

Author Biographies

Yoshiko Matsuda, Takasaki University of Health and Welfare, Japan

Yoshiko Matsuda received her Ph.D. in early modern English musical drama from University of Tsukuba, Japan. She teaches English drama as an associate professor at Takasaki University of Health and Welfare, and has an interest in Japanese adaptations of Western works.
Lan Zhou, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China

Lan Zhou is a Ph.D. student at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Her main research field is Renaissance English literature, and the topic of her dissertation is Milton and education.
Yasumasa Okamoto, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan

Yasumasa Okamoto is Emeritus Professor at Tokyo Gakugei University. His publications include Aspects of Literary Form: Temporal Forms, Narratology, Humor (1975), and The Reader and the Spectator of Shakespeare: Text and Performance (2005). He co-edited Modern Critical Theories, 3 vols. (1988) and A New Dictionary of Literary Terms (1998), and translated into Japanese The Winter’s Tale (co-trans., 1966) and Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (1991).

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