The Japanese Shakespeare: Language and Context in the Translations of Tsubouchi Shōyō

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Daniel Gallimore (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

The Japanese Shakespeare

Language and Context in the Translations of Tsubouchi Shōyō

Daniel Gallimore (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

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Routledge
24 July 2024

Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

"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 Shōyō (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."

By: Daniel Gallimore (Kwansei Gakuin University Japan)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032277004
ISBN 10: 1032277009
Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 24 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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

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.