Introduction: "Thinking upon revenge" / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
pt. 1. Revenge contexts and comparisons. Closed and open societies: the revenge dramas of Japan, Spain, and England / Leonard C. Pronko
Unsexed and disembodied: female avengers in Japan and England / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei
"Avenge me!": ghosts in English renaissance and Kabuki revenge dramas / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Kabuki parodies of blood revenge / Laurence Kominz
Revenge on screen: Imai Tadashi's Night drum / Keiko McDonald
Censoring vengeance: revenge dramas and tragedies during the Allied Occupation of Japan / David Jortner
pt. 2. Chūshingura: east and west. The horizontal Chūshingura: western translations and adaptations prior to World War II / Aaron M. Cohen
Chūshingura in the 1980s: rethinking the story of the Forty-seven Rōnin / Henry D. Smith II
Appendix: Chūshingura-related books of the1980s. One legacy of Madame Butterfly: Chūshingura as a contemporary opera / J. Thomas Rimer
Gender construction and Chūshingura as a Japanese national legend / Junko Saeki
"The play's the thing": cross-cultural adaptation of revenge plays thorugh traditional drama / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
