Speaking of Shakespeare

SoS #9 | Kyoko Matsuyama: Shakespeare, Manga, and Anime

August 08, 2021 Thomas Dabbs Season 1 Episode 9
Speaking of Shakespeare
SoS #9 | Kyoko Matsuyama: Shakespeare, Manga, and Anime
Show Notes

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(See SEGMENTS below): Thomas Dabbs speaks with Professor Kyoko Matsuyama about Shakespeare. Professor Matsuyama examines many elements of Shakespeare, including Shakespearean influences in novels, mange, and anime.

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:16 End of 1st year of pandemic teaching
0:04:55 The wonders of the Odakyu line
0:06:15 Travel limitations, Tokyo
0:07:40 Gothic Literature conference / Titus Andronicus in anime
0:09:55 Educational challenges during a pandemic
0:18:42 Kyoko's research on teaching Shakespeare in Japan / 12th Night
0:23:08 Teaching unfamiliar material with familiar resources, 
0:23:45 Manga and YA novels / vampires
0:28:25 Kyoko's international education / cultural adaptation, re-adaptation
0:39:35 Issues with assimilation and re-assimilation / studies in literature
0:47:33 Teachers who inspired / turning to humanities as a career
0:48:43 Research in theatre history / Midsummer / Edmund Kean / Kemble
0:54:10 Shakespeare in Manga and Anime / Gaming
1:09:10 Future research: Funeral of the Rose King anime and Shakespeare
1:11:00 PsychoPass / violence
1:13:10 Comments on violence in popular culture and in Shakespeare
1:20:00 Closing remarks

TOPICS:
#Shakespeare
#manga
#anime
#aoyamagakuin
#literature
#esl
#educationjapan
#englisheducation
#shakespeareperformance
#shakespeareadaptation