Hamlet through your legs: Radical Rewritings of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in Japan
Hamlet through your legs: Radical Rewritings of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in Japan
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Oxford: Berghahn Books
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This article discusses four Hamlet adaptations produced in twentieth-century Japan: Naoya Shiga’s ‘Claudius’s Diary’ (1912), Hideo Kobayashi’s ‘Ophelia’s Testament’ (1931), Osamu Dazai’s New Hamlet (1941) and Shohei Ooka’s Hamlet’s Diary (1955). Though differently motivated, and written in different styles, they collectively make something of a tra...
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Hamlet through your legs: Radical Rewritings of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in Japan
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2494216732
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2494216732
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0011-1570
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1752-2293
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10.3167/cs.2021.330107
