Tsuneari Fukuda

Fukuda Tsuneari (Japanese福田 恒 存; * August 25, 1912, † 20 November 1994), was a Japanese playwright, translator and literary critic.

Life

Fukuda studied in the 1930s English at the University of Tokyo. He wrote his doctoral thesis on DH Lawrence, whose works he later translated. After the Second World War, he had success as a dramatist with plays such as Kitty taifu (1950), Ryu o Nadeta Owoko (1952) and Meian (1956). In 1954, he was - in addition to playwrights such as Kinoshita Junji Mishima Yukio and the magazine staff Shingeki (New Theater ), in which he has published reviews and essays.

1955 Fukuda staged Shakespeare's Hamlet in its own Translation with Akutagawa Hiroshi in the lead role. The staging is considered the turning point of the reception of Shakespeare in Japan. Fukuda himself sat down in the following years in several writings theoretically with a performance of Shakespeare's works apart. His translation of his dramatic works replaced the translation currently being used in Japan by Tsubouchi Shoyo from the 19th and early 20th century. Some of his own dramas were successfully performed in English translation in the United States (including the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre ).

In 1971 he was awarded the Grand Prix for Japanese Literature for his work Sōtō imada shisezu (総統 いまだ 死せ ず).

Swell

  • Tetsuo Kishi, Graham Bradshaw: Shakespeare in Japan. Continuum, 2006, ISBN 0-8264-9270-3, pp. 29-52 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn (ed.): The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama. Volume 1, Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-14422-3, S. 497 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare - Fukuda, Tsuneari
  • Translator
  • Author
  • Drama
  • Literary critic
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1912
  • Died in 1994
  • Man
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