BY REVIEWER Armstrong, Elizabeth L. Rakugo: The Popular Narrative Art of Japan, by Heinz Morioka and Miyoko Sasaki (Book). 10.2 (1993): 216-217. Armstrong, Hamilton. Concerned Theatre Japan: The Graphic Art of the Japanese Theatre, 1960-1980, by David C. Goodman (CD-ROM). 19.1 (2002): 248-250. Awasthi, Suresh. Classical Dance and Theatre in South-East Asia, by Jukka O. Miettinen (Book). 11.2 (1994): 312-313. -----. Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera, by Tan Sooi Beng (Book). 11.2 (1994): 313-314. -----. Puppetry and Lesser Known Dance Traditions of Kerala, by G. Venu (Book). 10.1 (1993): 118. -----. Kalidasa: The Loom of Time, by Chandra Rajan, trans. 10.1 (1993): 119-120. Baier, Randal. Javanese Shadow Puppets, by Ward Keeler (Book). 12.2 (1995): 355-358. -----. Javanese Gamelan: Traditional Orchestra of Java, by Jennifer Lindsay (Book). 12.2 (1995): 355-358. Bakshi, Sri Ram V. Theatres of the Mahabharata, by Richard Frasca (Book). 9.2 (1992): 263. Baumrin, Seth. The Actor's Way, by Erik Exe Christoffersen (Book). 14.2 (1997): 281-289. -----. Towards a Third Theatre, by Ian Watson (Book). 14.2 (1997): 281-289. -----. The Paper Canoe, by Eugenio Barba (Book). 14.2 (1997): 281-289. -----. The Performers' Village, by Kirsten Hastrup, ed. (Book). 14.2 (1997): 281-289. Berberich, Junko S. The Voices and Hands of Bunraku, by Barbara Adachi (Book). 1.1 (1984): 122-123. Bethune, Robert. Learning by Performing Arts: From Indigenous to Endogenous Cultural Development, by Kees Epskamp (Book). 12.1 (1995): 209-211. -----. Alternative Japanese Drama, ed. Robert T. Rolf and John K. Gillespie (Plays). 11.1 (1994): 148. -----. Masterworks of the No Theater, by Kenneth Yasuda (Plays). 9.2 (1992): 252-253. -----. The House of Kanze, by Nobuko Albery (Plays). 9.2 (1992): 254. -----. Kabuki Backstage, Onstage: An Actor's Life, by Matazo Nakamura (Book). 9.1 (1992): 123-124. -----. Kabuki in Modern Japan: Mayama Seika and His Plays, by Brian Powell (Book). 9.1 (1992): 125-126. Blumner, Holly A. Kabuki: A Pocket Guide, by RonaldCavaye(Book). 11.2 (1994): 326-328. Boyd, Julianne. Backstage at Bunraku, by Barbara C. Adachi (Book). 7.1 (1990): 116-117. Brakel-Papenhuyzen, Glara. Schattenspiel in Karnataka, Sud-Indien, by Friedrich Seltmann (Book). 13.1 (1996): 125-126. -----. Essays on Southeast Asian Performing Arts: Local Manifestations and Cross-Cultural Implications, ed. Kathy Foley (Book). 12.1 (1995): 204-205. Brandon, James R. New Kabuki Encyclopedia: A Revised Edition of Kabuki Jiten, by Samuel L. Leiter (Book). 15.2 (1998): 282-286. Brown, Steven T. Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary, by Chifumi Shimazaki (Plays). 13.2 (1996): 262-263. Chatterjee, Sudipto. Sri Lankan Theatre in a Time of Terror: Political Satire in a Permitted Space, by Ranjini Obeyesekere (Book). 18.2 (2001): 270-273. Cho, Oh-kon. Korean Dance, Theatre and Cinema, ed. Korean National Commission for UNESCO (Book). 5.2 (1988): 239-240. _____. The Korean Theatre Past and Present, by Korean Centre of ITI (Book). 3.2 (1986): 276-277. Conceison, Claire. Theater and Society: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama, ed. Yan Haiping (Plays). 17.1 (2000): 135-137. _____. The Chinese Other 1850-1925: An Anthology of Plays, ed. David Williams (Plays). 17.1 (2000): 135-137. Crump, J. I. Chinese Theatre: From Its Origins to the Present Day, ed. Cohn Mackerras (Book). 2.1 (1985): 80-81. Danaan, Llyn De. Hokushu, by Frank Hoff and Bill Somerville (Video, 16-mm Film). 1.2 (1984): 243-244. _____. Ajuba Dance and Drama Company, by Ron Hess (16-mm Film). …

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Kabuki and Shakespeare

Awang, Usman. "The Death of a Warrior." Rahmah Hj. Bujang, trans. 5.2 (1988): 175-197. Bach, Faith, trans. and intr. "Takatoki: A Kabuki Drama." 15.2 (1998): 155-180. Beichman, Janine. "Drifting Fires: An American No." 3.2 (1986): 233-260. Chen,Fan Pen,trans. and intr. "The Temple of Guanyin: A Chinese Shadow Play." 16.1 (1999): 60-106. -----, trans. and intr. "Reunion with Son and Daughter in Kingfisher Red County: A Yuan Drama." 14.2 (1997): 157-199. deBoer, Fredrik E., trans. "The Dimba and Dimbi of I Nyoman Rajeg: A Balinese Shadow Play." 4.1 (1987): 76-107. Dolby, William, trans. and intr. "'Gazing Homewards': One Scene from a Traditional Chinese Play." 7.1 (1990): 76-94. Dongsheng, Hu, et al., trans. "Scholar from Bashan County: A Sichuan Opera." 3.1 (1986): 54-101. Efendi, Pepen. "The Incantation of Semar Smiles: A Tarling Musical Drama by Pepen Efendi." Matthew Isaac Cohen, trans. and intr. 16.2 (1999): 139-193. Frasca, Richard A., trans. and intr. "The Dice Game and the Disrobing (Pakatai Tuyil): A Terukuttu Performance." 15.1 (1998): 1-44. Han, Tian. "The Night a Tiger Was Captured." Randy Barbara Kaplan, trans. and intr. 11.1 (1994): 1-34. Hanji, Chikamatsu, Miyoshi Shoraku and Takemoto Saburobei. "Moritsuna' s Camp: An Eighteenth-Century Play from Japan's Puppet Theatre." Stanleigh H. Jones Jr., trans. and intr. 2.2 (1985): 99-138. Harue, Tsutsumi. "Kanadehon Hamlet: A Play by Tsutsumi Harue." Faubion Bowers, David W. Griffith, and Hon Mariko, trans. 15.2 (1998): 181-229. Hassan, Noordin. "Masks (Peran): A Malay Play by Noordin Hassan." Solehah Ishak, trans. and intr. 16.2 (1999): 194-229. Jones, Stanleigh H., Jr., trans. and annot. "Vengeance and Its Toll in 'Numazu': An Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Play." 7.1 (1990): 42-75. Kenny, Don, trans. and intr. "The Snail: A Kyogen Play as Performed by the Izumi School." 3.1 (1986): 34-53. Kunio, Shimizu. "An Older Sister Burning Like a Flame: A Play by Shimizu Kunio." J. Thomas Rimer, trans. and intr. 16.1 (1999): 1-59. Limusushiden and Kevin Stuart, trans. and intr. "Larinbuda and Jiminsu: A Monguor Tragedy." 12.2 (1995): 221-263. Madra, I Ketut. "'The Death of Kumbakarna' of I Ketut Madra: A Balinese Wayang Ramayana Play." Fredrik E. deBoer and I Made Bandem, ed. and trans. 9.2 (1992): 141-200. Meewon, Lee. "The Mask-Dance Play of Kasan Village (Kasan ogwangdae)." 2.2 (1985): 139-171. Minglun, Wei. …

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Among Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira’s three Shakespeare films, Throne of Blood (1957), Ran (1985), and The Bad Sleep Well (1960), the latter has been relatively ignored in Anglophone Shakespeare criticism. This article investigates the Anglophone reception of The Bad Sleep Well and argues in favor of its re-appraisal as a Hamlet. On reception, it examines three explanations for the neglect: its modern setting, its deconstructive adaptation, and its cinematic quality. Considering the latter unconvincing, the article posits that the first two were only detrimental to the film’s reception because they respectively did not conform to Western expectations of essentially pre-modern ‘Oriental’ Japan and of ‘straight’ canonical Shakespeare. Considering changed attitudes in Shakespeare studies, neither of these should still be held against the film. On re-appraisal, The Bad Sleep Well may be reread in the 21st century as part of our continuing memory of our global Shakespeare discourse. Centering on the film’s innovative presentation of Claudius and The Mousetrap, the article argues for the porous border between ‘straight’ production and ‘crooked’ adaptation, and the value to the tradition of oblique approaches to familiar scenes and characters. By arguing for The Bad Sleep Well as a Hamlet worthy of study, the article furthers discussion on archival silences and new rhizomatic models of global Shakespeare that seek to move past the more reductive qualities of the ‘national Shakespeares’ mode of discourse that dominated in the 1990s and 2000s.

Re-reading the Archive: A 21st Century Re-appraisal of Kurosawa’s "The Bad Sleep Well" as a Modern "Hamlet"

The first half of the above epigram is frequently cited as an injunction to theatre for theatre’s sake: “the play’s the thing.” In context, however, Hamlet advocates theatre as a means to an end—the play is not the thing in and of itself. In fact, the play is less important than the effect it can achieve—that is, to cause Claudius to reveal his guilt in the murder of Old Hamlet.

“The Play’s the Thing”: Cross-cultural Adaptation of Revenge Plays through Traditional Drama

In the spring of 1997, the editor of ATJ witnessed a production of this play at New York's La MaMa E. T. C. and was immediately interested in publishing it. The play is interesting on several levels: it has a strong dramatic action, concerns an important problem in the transition ofJapanese drama from traditional forms to modern ones, reveals the kind of serious misunderstandings that occur when cultures collide, allows for exciting 'fusion" scenes in which Shakespeare is produced kabuki-style, and brings to the stage several real-life kabuki figures, notably Morita Kan 'ya XII, the progressive Meiji-era producer. The playwright also makes an interesting case for explaining Shakespeare's Hamlet to the kabuki company when, as suggested by her title, she uses the Japanese classic Kanadehon Chushingura as a point of comparison. Tsutsumi Harue is a doctoral student in East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University. As a student of theatre history in the master's degree program at Osaka University, she studied under the distinguished playwright and scholar Yamazaki Masakazu. She was interested in playwriting as well as in the comparative natures of traditional apanese and Western drama. When she subsequently movedfromJapan to the United States she was prompted to focus on the clash between the two cultures. Herfourfull-length plays are Kanadehon Hamuretto (Kanadehon Hamlet), Rokumeikan Ibun (Strange Tales of the Rokumeikan), Tsukiji Hoterukan Enj6 (The Burning of the Tsukiji Hotel), and Seigeki Osero (Othello in Japan), as well as two one-act plays. Faubion Bowers, the chief translator, is one of the best-known Western authorities on Japanese theatre. His books include Japanese Theatre (1952) and Theatre in the East (1956).

Tsutsumi Harue

Papers

Kanadehon Hamlet: A Play by Tsutsumi Harue