Product Description: Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This account explores the conditions of Shakespeare's reception and assimilation. It considers the problems of translation both cultural and linguistic, and includes an extensive illustrated survey of the most significant Shakespearean productions and adaptations, and the contrasting responses of Japanese and Western critics...read more

Product Description: In this issue of "The Shakespearean International Yearbook", the special section treats "Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited." The essays in this section demonstrate and consider various approaches to the interrelated questions of Montaigne's and Shakespeare's use of skepticism, of their reading, and of the philosophical contexts of their work...read more

Product Description: Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This account explores the conditions of Shakespeare's reception and assimilation. It considers the problems of translation both cultural and linguistic, and includes an extensive illustrated survey of the most significant Shakespearean productions and adaptations, and the contrasting responses of Japanese and Western critics...read more

Product Description: For a convenient introduction to Shakespearean topics, plays and poems, direct patrons to this authoritative resource. Beginning with Vol. 27, this illustrated series focuses on criticism published after 1960 and provides the reader with a thematic approach to Shakespeare's works...read more

Product Description: Just at the moment when conflicts between critical "isms" are threatening to turn the study of English literature into a game park for endangered texts, Bradshaw arrives with a work of liberating wit and insight. His subject is double: the Shakespeare he reads and the Shakespeare whom critics in the ranks of the new historicists and cultural materialists are representing (or misrepresenting)...read more

Product Description: "Shakespeare's Scepticism combines a powerfully original thesis about Shakespeare with unfailingly probing analyses of specific passages and plays. Graham Bradshaw's book will take its place beside those of his most distinguished forerunners--Bradley, Wilson Knight, Rossiter, Rabkin--as one of the landmarks of Shakespeare criticism in the twentieth century...read more