"Re-reading the Archive: A 21st Century Re-appraisal of Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well as a Modern Hamlet"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbm77/
Author:
	Reiner van Zon, Stan.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2022
Publication Information:
	Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 25, no. 40 (2022): 41–59.
DOI:
	10.18778/2083-8530.25.04
Annotation:
	Analyses Anglophone reception of Kurosawa Akira’s less-acknowledged film, The Bad Sleep Well (q.v.), which draws on Hamlet for inspiration. Notes film's lack of conformity to Western expectations and articulates its significance within global Shakespeare discourse. English summary, online.
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	Kurosawa, The Bad Sleep Well
Tags:
	Film, Cinema, Television, Radio, Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Translations and Adaptations
WSB Update:
	Summer 2024
WSB Record Number:
	bbbm77