The Shifting Appreciation of "Hamlet" in Its Japanese Novelizations: Hideo Kobayashi’s "Ophelia’s Will" and Its Revisions
Hideo Kobayashi, who is today known as one of the most prominent literary critics of the Showa era in Japan, published Ophelia’s Will in 1931 when he was still an aspiring novelist. This novella was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, composed as a letter written by Ophelia to Hamlet before her e...
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Lodz University Press
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Multicultural Shakespeare |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/9064 |