\u30fbTitle: Shakespeare and Transcultural Adaptation and Appropriation<\/p>\n
\u30fbDay and Time:\u00a0 January 15, 2026 6:30pm-<\/p>\n
\u30fbAbstract:<\/p>\n
In 2016, Waseda University and the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham signed an agreement for research collaboration on the works of Shakespeare. Since then, the two institutions have worked closely together, organizing a wide range of academic events. Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, often reminds us that Shakespeare is \u201cthe lingua franca of world drama\u201d and a global phenomenon that transcends national boundaries. In this spirit, the primary focus of our collaboration has been the study of Shakespeare as a global playwright and the investigation of the transcultural adaptation of his works. In this faculty seminar, I will introduce my contributions to the Waseda\u2013Birmingham research collaboration for the past years. These include research on the cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s plays in Italian silent films; novelistic adaptations of Hamlet by three Japanese authors\u2014Shiga Naoya, Kobayashi Hideo, and \u014coka Sh\u014dhei; Shakespeare\u2019s Republican Roman plays (Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra) and monarchist and imperialist reinterpretations of them by the filmmaker Enrico Guazzoni during the period of imperial expansion under Mussolini\u2019s Fascist regime. The next major collaborative event will be a three-day conference, \u2018Shakespeare in a Polarized World\u2019, to be held at the Waseda Brussels Office and co-hosted by Waseda University, the University of Birmingham, and the Free University of Brussels. For this conference, I am planning to present a paper that traces the history of adaptations of Coriolanus from John Philip Kemble to Ninagawa Yukio, via Bertolt Brecht, focusing on how stage characterizations of Coriolanus have oscillated between monarchist war hero and anti-republican villain.<\/p>\n
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