Theatre and Film Studies 2008 vol.2
—Articles (Reviewed)—

Edmund Kean’s The Merchant of Venice and Richard the Third—Criticism of Kean after 1814 and the Audience’s Reception—
Kyoko MATSUYAMA 1

Asakusa Opera and Dramatization of the Censored Libretto La Traviata
Masaaki NAKANO 15

Opera in the Society—Americanism, African Americans and the ‘Socially Forming Power’ in Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf—
Jin NAKAMURA 41

Samuel Beckett and the Acoustic Media: All That Fall and Krapp’s Last Tape
Yoshiko KISHIMOTO 59

Voice and Vision: Reversal of the Theatrical World in Beckett’s Play
Keiko KIKUCHI 83

‘The Invisible Face’ in Samuel Beckett’s Nacht und Träume
Noboru KATAOKA 99

The Description of the Historical Characters in the Tragedies of Pierre Corneille
Tetsuo CHIKAWA 115

Autumn in the Tyrols as Dramatic Theory —A Study on Nomad, Time and Dream—
Keiko MIYAMOTO 129

Abe Kobo, the Drama Doreigari [Slave Hunting]
Yoko KIMURA 149

Shuji Terayama’s Theatrical Experience in Germany: A Re-examination of Experimenta 3 in 1969, Frankfurt’s
International Festival of Experimental Theatre
Sunao OTSUKA 165

—Articles—
Perspectives in Cymbeline: Focusing on the Visual Scenes Hiromi FUYUKI 187 Dramatic Text as a Self-portrait of the Author: about Giraudoux’s Siegfried
Yukie MASE 205

The Representation of Women in Early Soviet Art and Cinema during the Era of Stalinism
Hajime KAIZAWA 223

Cocooning and Polyphony in Samuel Beckett’s Comment c’est
zumi NISHIMURA 245

Tom Murphy’s Famine (1968) and Its Context
Hiroko MIKAMI 265

Summaries 283