| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This study explores how Shakespeare's fools and clowns are resurrected for the modern stage both in Japan and Britain after more than 400 years. Some try to act out a perfect court jester pleasing both onstage and offstage audiences ; some rely a little more heavily on physical comedy to elicit laughter from the audience. The Japanese actors equally suffer from Shakespeare's language, in translation, which is inevitably awkward however hard a translator tries to find the equivalent of what sometimes is nonsensical.
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