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Timothy Harris
For Timothy Harris's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 16, 2013
'Edward II': The back story
Atheist, blasphemer, sodomite, spy, counterfeiter, lover of boys and tobacco — playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe has never been easily accepted into the comfortable canon of English literature.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 27, 2003
A laconic energy from days gone by
TALES OF DAYS GONE BY: Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara, English translation and annotation by Charles De Wolf, design by Yoshiki Waterhouse. ALIS, 2003, 64 pp., 3,900 yen (cloth). ALIS (Arts & Literature International Service) is a small Japanese publisher that specializes in illustrated books and acts as a kind of bridge between Japan and the West, particularly England. Japan has its own tradition of illustrated books, but at the outset it was the English tradition of books illustrated with wood engravings that was the stimulus. ALIS began by publishing Japanese editions of the English woodcut engraver Yvonne Skargon's best-selling books about cats, and has since gone on to publish illustrated translations of classical Japanese literature. "Tales of Days Gone By" is a translation of 17 stories from the Late Heian (late 11th or early 12th century) collection "Konjaku monogatari shu," which contains over 1,200 tales.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 13, 2002
In the nihongo words of the Bard . . .
Kazuko Matsuoka is the Shakespeare translator whose work directors and actors in Japan most like to use. A 59-year-old Tokyo resident, she is the translator appointed for the Saitama Arts Theater's project of staging Shakespeare's complete works. To date, she has translated 11 of the plays, and is now working on "Pericles, Prince of Tyre," and correcting proofs of "The Merchant of Venice." She has also translated numerous modern plays and novels and is a recipient of the Yuasa Yoshiko Prize for the Translation of Foreign Plays.

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