Japanese Shakespeare - Language and Context in the Translations of Tsubouchi Shoyo

Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi's Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi's place as "the Japanese Shakespeare."
Shakespeare translation is one of the achievements of modern Japanese culture, and no one is more associated with that achievement than the writer and scholar Tsubouchi Sh y (1859-1935). This book looks at how Tsubouchi received Shakespeare in the context of his native literature and his strategies for bridging the gaps between Shakespeare's rhetoric and his developing language. Offering a significant contribution to the field of global Shakespeare and literary translation, Gallimore explores dominant stylistic features of the early twentieth-century Shakespeare translations of Tsubouchi and analyses the translations within larger linguistic, historical, and cultural traditions in local Japanese, universal Chinese, and spiritual Western elements.
This book will appeal to any student, researcher, or scholar of literary translation, particularly those interested in the complexities of Shakespeare in translation and Japanese language, culture, and society.

List of contents

1. In Search of Sh y 2. Sh y 's Shakespeare 3. A Voice for Shakespeare in Modern Japan 4. Staging Sh y 5. Conclusion: Sh y 's Field

About the author

Daniel Gallimore is a professor in the School of Humanities at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. He completed his DPhil in Oriental Studies at Oxford University, UK.

Summary

Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi’s Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi’s place as ‘the Japanese Shakespeare’.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Gallimore, Daniel (Kwansei Gakuin University Gallimore, Gallimore Daniel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032277004
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227700-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Japanese, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Translation and interpretation