Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 31 IS - no. 2 T2 - Shakespeare Bulletin SP - 233-55 ID - bbbc324 T1 - "Karma, Revenge, Apocalypse: Ran's Violent Victim-Agent through Japanese and Western Contexts" AU - Dodson-Robinson, Eric PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - violence KW - revenge LA - English AB - Considers the intertextual relationship of Akira Kurosawa's Ran to King Lear in exploring the ways that the film's "depictions of violence and revenge implicate both Western and Japanese traditions concurrently to make a powerful statement about the construction and shattering of national identity and the logic of mutually assured destruction." ER -