Introduction: Local/Global Shakespeare

Yoshiko Kawachi

doi:10.18778/2083-8530.30.01

Authors

Yoshiko Kawachi Kyorin University, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.30.01

Author Biography

Yoshiko Kawachi, Kyorin University, Japan

Yoshiko Kawachi, Ph.D. was Professor of English at Kyorin University. She is the author of Calendar of English Renaissance Drama 1558-1642 (1986), Shakespeare and Cultural Exchange (1995), Shakespeare’s Idea of Time (1998), Shakespeare’s World (2007), and Shakespeare: A World Traveler (2018). She is the editor of Shakespeare Worldwide, Japanese Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, and co-editor of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance. Her publications include: “Transvestism in English and Japanese Theatre” in Shakespeare’s Universe (1996), “Gender, Class, and Race in Japanese Translations of Shakespeare” in Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century (1998), “Rewriting Shakespeare in a Japanese Context for the Page and the Stage” in Shakespeare’s World/World Shakespeares (2008), “Shakespeare’s Long Journey to Japan” in Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys (2017) and “Enter the First Shakespearean Actress on the Japanese Stage: Her Contribution to the Theatre World, Cultural Exchange and Feminism” in English Without Boundaries (2017).

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