Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1913 — Hamlet In Japan. [ARTICLE]

Hamlet In Japan.

Wo can never hope to see In London Shakespearian productions on the same lines as those which find.favor in Japan. Not long ago the Kobe Herald described a performance in that town of "Hamlet," with the scene laid in modern Japan. "The Prince-of Denmark appears first in a dilk hat and a swallow-tail coat; then on a bicycle, clad in a bright blue cycling suit and striped stockings; and then in evening dress again, with a flower in his buttonhole. This up-to-date collegian

has little more resemblance to the Hamlet whom Shakespeare conceived than a Jew of the modern type would bear to the Shylock of ancient Venice.” Ophelia, for the purposes of the play, was transformed into a fellow student of Hamlet at the University of Tokyo.—London Chronicle.