Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre

1. Introduction: “Thinking Upon Revenge”
Kevin J. Wetmore

Part 1. Revenge Contexts and Comparisons

2. Closed and Open Societies
Leonard C. Pronko

3. Unsexed and Disembodied
Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

4. “Avenge Me!”
Kevin J. Wetmore

5. Kabuki Parodies of Blood Revenge
Laurence Kominz

6. Revenge on Screen
Keiko McDonald

7. Censoring Vengeance
David Jortner

Part 2. Chūshingura: East and West

8. The Horizontal Chūshingura
Aaron M. Cohen

9. Chūshingura in the 1980s
Henry D. Smith

10. One Legacy of Madame Butterfly
J. Thomas Rimer

11. Gender Construction and Chūshingura as a Japanese National Legend
Junko Saeki

12. “The Play’s the Thing”: Cross-cultural Adaptation of Revenge Plays through Traditional Drama
Kevin J. Wetmore

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Theatre History, British and Irish Literature, Asian Literature