Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (AMS Press, 2000)
In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Society

Foreword
YASUO TAMAIZUMI
vii

Introduction

YASUNARI TAKAHASHI
1

Falling Backward and Broken Maidenhead:
Language of Sexuality in Romeo and Juliet

SOJI IWASAKI
5

Diagnosing Male Jealousy: Woman as Man’s Symptom in
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, The Winter’s Tale and Cymbeline

YOKO TAKAKUWA
19

The Wonder of the Virgin Queen:
Through Early Colonial Discourse on Virginia

EMI HAMANA
37

The Taming of the Shrewd Critics
Who Talk Wild of The Wild-Goose Chase

SHOICHIRO KAWAI
53

Creating the Female Self:
Margaret Cavendish’s Authorial Voice and Fictional Selves

MAMI ADACHI
69

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Dialogue in Romeo and Juliet

TETSUO KISHI
89

“Those Are Pearls That Were His Eyes”:
Shakespeare’s Holographic Imagination

MITSURU KAMACHI
101

Coriolanus and the Body of Satan

KOICHI MURANUSHI
115

The Bee Emblem in The Rape of Lucrece

MISAKO MATSUDA
131

Overlapping Exits and Entrances in Shakespeare’s Plays

MARIKO ICHIKAWA
145

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Theories of Nature and Political Legitimation:
Two Orestes Plays in English Renaissance Drama

AYA MIMURA
167

The First and the Second Parts of Henry IV:
Some Thoughts on the Origins of Shakespearean Gentleness

SHIGEKI TAKADA
183

“Remember Saint Crispin”:
Narrating the Nation in Henry V

TED MOTOHASHI
197

Tamburlaine’s Prophetic Oratory and
Protestant Militarism in the 1580s

ARATA IDE
215

On the Margins of a Civilization:
The Representation of the Scythians in Elizabethan Texts

ATSUHIKO HIROTA
237

The Masque of Queens: Between Sight and Sound

YUMIKO YAMADA
255

Contextualizing Shakespeare:
The Renaissance Debate on the Nature of Slavery

SERGIO MAZZARELLI
269

Notes on Contributors

289

Index

293