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2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Cultural Mobilisation of Shakespeare in Japan in the 1930s and 1940s

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 21K00395
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
Research InstitutionOsaka Metropolitan University (2022-2023)
Osaka City University (2021)

Principal Investigator

Kohei Uchimaru  大阪公立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (50801495)

Project Period (FY) 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Keywordsシェイクスピア / シェイクスピア受容研究
Outline of Final Research Achievements

To examine the reception of Shakespeare in Japan during the 1930s and 1940s, a comparison was made between the interpretations of Hamlet by English literary scholar Bunji Uraguchi and Osamu Dazai. Uraguchi viewed Hamlet as a man contemplating justice while distancing himself from both those who escape from reality and terrorists involved in radical politics. For Dazai, however, Hamlet was an indecisive man seized by what Carl Schmitt called ‘Romantic irony’. His representation of Hamlet reveals his lack of a criterion for justice (or belief systems).

Free Research Field

シェイクスピア

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

まず、日本のシェイクスピア受容研究で考察対象となることが少ない、1930年代から1940年代における『ハムレット』領有の実例を明らかにすることができたことはことはひとつの成果と言える。とくに太宰治の『新ハムレット』は、従来論じられることはあっても、シェイクスピアの『ハムレット』と比較や太宰のシェイクスピア観の摘出、あるいは『ハムレット』を題材とした近代小説との比較という範囲にとどまるものであったが、本研究では、太宰が読んだ文献や彼の精神史も分析しつつ『ハムレット』を通して、いかに太宰が思考したのかという側面を強く打ち出せ、シェイクスピアの政治的意義を再認識できたことに意義がある。

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Published: 2025-01-30  

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