Final Thoughts on the Shakespeare Section

    As we mentioned before, the material on the Japanese web was too large to include all of it. The number of pages we chose was so little compared to the existing ones that was difficult to consider them as a representative corpus. Nevertheless we have struggled to give a vision as complete as possible about the “webscape” of Shakespeare in Japan. We can conclude that there is a real interest in the playwright as shown by the numerous theater companies dedicated to his plays. A lot of research is probably going on too, but somehow it is difficult to spot them on the internet, or at least it is not easy to come across them by using the conventional search methods. There is a great number of websites created by amateurs who have interest in Shakespeare, and on a more academic level only a few ones were found. We felt a lack of more articles, books, texts, essays and dissertations  about Shakespeare published on the internet. However, as we alluded before, there must be many more out there. The main question is: how to find them.