著者

湊 圭史 Minato Keiji

出版者

京都

雑誌

総合文化研究所紀要 = Bulletin of Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts (ISSN:09100105)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, pp.164-182, 2018-07-27

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For creators in musical theatre in the United States, William Shakespeareʼs plays have been a great source of inspiration. Early successes in Shakespeare musical adaption like The Boys from Syracuse (1938), Kiss Me, Kate (1948), and West Side Story (1957) are regarded astrue masterpieces in the history of musicals.The Shakespeare craze in U.S. musicals, however, really took hold from the late 1960s, when rock and other new popular genres of music began to change the scene of American musicals. Your Own Thing (1968) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), both based on Shakespearean comedies, are now “rock musical” classics. In the new millennium, the musical world is having another surge of works inspired by Shakespeareʼs works, and the figure of Shakespeare as a playwright also appears in a variety of forms on the musical stage.This paper traces the history of American musicals related to Shakespeare and his works to show how various elements of Shakespearean plays and Shakespeare himself as a liberating figure in popular theatrical culture have been helping creators of musicals deal with the latestcultural and political issues in each new generation.