Playing Shakespeare's Fools and Clowns-a comparative study of 'fool acting' in Japan and the UK

这项研究探讨了莎士比亚的傻瓜和小丑是如何在400多年后在日本和英国的现代舞台上复活的。有些人试图扮演一个完美的宫廷小丑，同时取悦舞台上和台下的观众；有些则更多地依靠肢体喜剧来博得观众的笑声。日本演员同样受到莎士比亚语言的影响，在翻译中，无论译者如何努力寻找有时荒谬的对等物，这都不可避免地令人尴尬。

This study explores how Shakespeare's fools and clowns are resurrected for the modern stage both in Japan and Britain after more than 400 years. Some try to act out a perfect court jester pleasing both onstage and offstage audiences ; some rely a little more heavily on physical comedy to elicit laughter from the audience. The Japanese actors equally suffer from Shakespeare's language, in translation, which is inevitably awkward however hard a translator tries to find the equivalent of what sometimes is nonsensical.