The Shakespeare Company of Japan

    In the same way as the Shakespeare Theatre or the Shakespeare Company, The Shakespeare Company of Japan is a website that serves as an introduction for the company, its aims, its history and its current activities. It was a non-profit making organization created in 1992 in the Tohoku area of Japan with the intention to gather funds to build a replica of the Globe Theatre of Stratford. The company includes the Shakespeare Company Troupe which among other things adapts and translates plays of Shakespeare to eventually represent them. In their own words, they are trying to develop “a new kind of Shakespeare play”.

    The contents of the Japanese version and the English version are basically the same, but the map site and the structure of the Japanese version is better crafted and has a few additional links such as an wide group of records containing reports on all the past activities, essays and conferences. All in all, both versions lack the clearness and neatness of presentations of the other pages, and sometimes the path to follow through the links is not very clear or logical.