Essays on Chaucer, Gower, Malory, medieval romance, 16c drama, Sidney and Shakespeare.
Professor Shinsuke Ando, of the University of Keio, is among the most distinguished scholars of medieval and Renaissance English literature.To celebrate his sixtieth birthday, friends and colleagues fromaround the world have contributed to this collection of essays on topicsof special interest to him, including Chaucer, Gower, Malory, medievalromance, sixteenth-century drama, Sidney, and Shakespeare.
The Western European and US contributors are: LORD BUTTERFIELD,THWAITE, BREWER, HARDY, KERRIGAN, FICHTE, MROCZKOWSKI, HAAS, AXTON, AHRENS, SPEARING, BURROW, MORSE, BEADLE, BLAKE, WINDEATT. The Japanese contributors are: FUJII, IWASAKI, NOGUCHI, NOJIMA, OIZUMI, TAKADA, TAKAHASHI, TAKAMIYA, UENO, KAWACHI.
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Bears witness to the contribution made by Japanese scholars, and Shinsuke Ando in particular, to English medieval and Renaissance studies. * MEDIUM AEVUM * Significant contributions by an excellent group of scholars...an appropriate tribute to Shinsuke Ando, 'a Japanese samurai spirit clad in Western learning'. * MLR *
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Shinsuke Ando, Lord Butterfield; Potter - for Shinsuke Ando at 60, Anthony Thwaite; the medieval foundations of a united Europe, Przemyslaw Mroczkowski; temperamental texts - medieval discussions of character, emotion and motivation, Ruth Morse; Chaucer's concept of nature, Shunichi Noquchi; Chaucer and "tragedy", Richard Axton; from "The House of Fame" to politico-cultural histories, Yasunari Takada; "I wol nat telle it yit" - John Selden and a lost version of the "Cook's Tale", Richard Beadle; towards a rhyme concordance to Chaucer's poetical works, Akio Oizumi; Gawain's green girdle as a medieval talisman, Toshiyuki Takamiya; the griffin's egg - Gower's "Confessio Amantis" I 2545, John Borrow; "privytes to us" - knowing and re-vision in Julian of Norwich, Barry Windeatt; the presence of purgatory in two debates in B.L. MS Addit. 37049, Takami Matsuda; the passion plays in "Ludus Coventriae" and the continental passion plays, Joerg O. Fichte; relative values in medieval and Renaissance drama, Soji Iwasaki; Astrophil's tragicomedy, John Kerrigan; Elizabethan merry tales and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" - Shakespeare and "popular" literature, Derek Brewer; telling the future - forecasts and fantasies in Shakespeare's narrative, Barbara Hardy; "why" and "what" in Shakespeare, Norman F. Blake; rhetorical means and comical effects in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Rudiger Ahrens; towards a theatrical body - notes on "Hamlet", Yasunari Takahashi; the "vita sexualis" of the Macbeths, Hidekatsu Nojima; a double perspective in "Antony and Cleopatra", Yoshiko Ueno; Daniel Schiebeler and Chaucer reception in 18th century Germany, Renate Haas; Milton's vision and Japanese translators, Haruhiko Fujii; Shinsuke Ando - vita, Keiko Kawachi; a select list of Professor Shinsuke Ando's publications, Keiko Kawachi.
