Tetsuo Kishi

The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. This year the volume includes a special section on Updating Shakespeare, looking at Shakespearean adaptation in several countries. Contributors to the volume come from the US and the UK, Poland, Japan and Brazil.

Special Section, Updating Shakespeare

Tom Bishop

Graham Bradshaw

Gail Marshall

Christy Desmet

Janice Norwood

Features three female actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.

Helen Faucit, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Fanny Kemble by Their Contemporaries

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, Volume 2

Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This account explores the conditions of Shakespeare's reception and assimilation. It considers the problems of translation both cultural and linguistic, and includes an extensive illustrated survey of the most significant Shakespearean productions and adaptations, and the contrasting responses of Japanese and Western critics.

Tetsuo Kishi

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