Kosuge, Hayato

Hayato KOSUGE (hamlet@a3.keio.jp) is professor of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts, Keio University, Tokyo. He earned BA and MA degrees in English literature at Keio University, and finished doctoral course in 1993 at Keio. His research interests include the Japanese underground movement of the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on Butoh. He is involved in the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive in Keio University Art Centre, and is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Digital Media and Content, Keio University. He is the project leader of the research group, Portfolio Butoh. He is also interested in English Tudor drama mainly focusing on Shakespearean dramaturgy. Regarding Shakespeare not as canonical but as material sources, he has been considering the relationship between the dramatic conventions and the cultural context, and the influences and contrasts of performance between East and West. Among his many publications, he is the editor of Fuhai to Saisei (Corruption and Regeneration), and coauthor of Shintai I Bunka-ron (Body, Medicine, and Culture). He is visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in 1996-98, and Stanford University in 2003. He will be in the position of the Director of Keio Research Center for Liberal Arts from October 2014.

(1)Renaissance Drama (England), (2)Shakespeare, (3)Comparative Study of Drama, (4)Butoh Study

This laboratory is focused on the history and theory of drama, particularly England's Tudor period and comparative study of drama in the East (modern Japan) versus that in the West.

• Shakespeare
• /Butoh
• /Performance
• /Theatre studies
• /Renaissance
• /English Literature