Shakespeare in Japan - Tetsuo Kishi, Graham Bradshaw - Google Books

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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…