Keizo Kawashima

Japanese: 河島敬蔵 - かわしまけいぞう
Keizo Kawashima

...The passionate lovers, the colorful dialogue, and the plot that accelerates to a climax make this lyrical love tragedy one of Shakespeare's most popular works. In Japan, the work was translated in 1886 by the English literature scholar Keizo Kawashima under the title "Romyojuri Gekijyoku Shunjo Ukiyo no Yume" (The Dream of a Romantic Life), and a translation by Shoyo Tsubouchi was published in 1910. The work has also been used as the basis for operas by Bellini and Gounod, choral and orchestral works by Berlioz, a fantasy overture by Tchaikovsky, and a ballet by Prokofiev, and the American musical "West Side Story" also uses a similar theme. ...

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Japanese:

…青春を激しく燃焼させる恋人たち,文彩に富んだ華麗なせりふ,加速度的テンポで大詰めに直進する筋の展開は,この抒情的な愛の悲劇をシェークスピアの作品中最も人気の高いものの一つにしている。 日本では,1886年英文学者河島敬蔵が《露妙樹利戯曲春情浮世の夢》と題して翻訳,坪内逍遥の訳も1910年に刊行された。なお,この作品を題材とした音楽に,ベルリーニ,グノーのオペラ,ベルリオーズの合唱と管弦楽曲,チャイコフスキーの幻想序曲,プロコフィエフのバレエ曲などがあり,アメリカのミュージカル《ウェスト・サイド物語》も同様の主題を扱っている。…

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