Shakespeare and cultural traditions : the selected proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Tokyo, 1991 / edited by Tetsuo Kishi, Roger Pringle, and Stanley Wells.

Contents: Shakespeare bewitched / Stephen Greenblatt -- Shakespeare and bearbaiting / Alexander Leggatt -- The offstage mob: Shakespeare's proletariat / Germaine Greer -- The Jack Cade scenes reconsidered: popular rebellion, Utopia, or carnival? / Franc¸ois Laroque -- The inversion of cultural traditions in Shakespeare's sonnets / Robert Ellrodt -- Shakespeare in the humanist tradition: skeptical doubts and their expression in paradoxes / M.T. Jones-Davies -- A Caliban in St. Mildred poultry / Roslyn L. Knutson -- Shakespeare's will and testamentary traditions / E.A.J. Honigmann -- Tragedy and emotion: Shakespeare and Chikamatsu / Takashi Sasayama -- "Which is the merchant here? And which is the Jew?: riddles of identity in The merchant of Venice / Avraham Oz -- Shakespeare and the ethnic question / Sukanta Chaudhuri -- Shakespeare imagines the Orient: the Orient imagines Shakespeare / Dennis Bartholomeusz -- Shakespeare's Australian travels / Alan Brissenden -- Voices and silences in Shakespeare's plays: a view from a different cultural tradition / Toshihiko Shibata -- "I know not what you mean by that": Shakespeare in different cultural contexts / Tetsuo Kishi -- Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Rome: a study in cultural transmission / Inga-Stina Ewbank -- Romanticism, antiromanticism, and the German Shakespeare tradition / Werner Habicht -- Shakespeare's plays and traditions of playgoing / John Russell Brown -- Fire in the theater: a cross-cultural code / Lois Potter -- Shakespeare as liberator: Macbeth in Czechoslovakia / Zene?k Str?i´brny´ -- Hamlet at world's end: Heiner Mu¨ller's production in East Berlin / Maik Hamburger -- Political Shakespeare: West Germany, 1970-1990 / Ina Schabert -- King Lear in the opera house / Dieter Mehl -- Framing The taming / Annabel Patterson -- Nicholas Rowe and the twentieth-century Shakespeare text / Barbara Mowat -- Locating texts in history / Robin Headlam Wells -- Bardicide / Gary Taylor -- Mousetrap and rat man: an uncanny resemblance / Ruth Nevo.