Competing for Supremacy: The Origins of Shakespeare Studies in Japan

This paper reveals that Shakespeare studies in Japan originated through competing notions of literary studies. Traditional Japanese ideas about literature differed markedly from Anglophone ones, which focused on grammatical and literary-historical facts based on the notion of Shakespeare’s universal...

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Main Author: Kohei Uchimaru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2023-11-01
Series:Multicultural Shakespeare
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir/article/view/20890