Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre : From Hamlet to Madame Butterfly (Hardcover)

_Thinking Upon Revenge_: An Introduction - Kevin J. Wetmore PART I: REVENGE CONTEXTS AND COMPARISONS Closed and Open Societies: The Revenge Dramas of Japan, Spain and England - Leonard Pronko Unsexed and Disembodied: Female Avengers in Japan and England - Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei _Avenge Me!_ Ghosts in English Renaissance and Kabuki Revenge Dramas - Kevin J. Wetmore Classical Adultery/Revenge Drama from Stage to Screen: Imai Tadashi_s Night Drum - Keiko McDonald Kabuki Parodies of Blood Revenge - Lawrence Kominz Censoring Vengeance: Revenge Dramas and Tragedies during the Allied Occupation of Japan - David Jortner Performing Bushido: Revenge and American Kabuki Replications - Aaron D. Anderson PART II: CHUSHINGURA: EAST AND WEST The Horizontal Chushingura: Western Translations and Adaptations Prior to World War II - Aaron M. Cohen Chushingura in the 1980s: Rethinking the Story of the 47 Ronin - Henry D. Smith II One Legacy of Madame Butterfly: Chushingura as a Contemporary Opera - J. Thomas Rimer Gender Construction and Chushingura as a Japanese National Legend - Junko Saeki The Play_s the Thing: Cross-cultural Adaptation of Revenge Plays through Traditional Drama - Kevin J. Wetmore