1. Susan Jacoby, Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge (New York: Harper and Row, 1983), 14.
2. Ueno Yoshiko, ed., Hamlet and Japan (New York: AMS, 1995); Kawatake Toshio, Nihon no Hamuretto (Tokyo: Nansōsha, 1972).
3. Laurence R. Kominz, Avatars of Vengeance (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, 1995); James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter, eds., Kabuki Plays on Stage, Volume 2: Villainy and Vengeance, 1773–1799 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002). Although the subtitle of volume two indicates that several of the plays contained therein focus on revenge, several other revenge plays, including several discussed in this book, are also in the third volume, Kabuki Plays on Stage, Volume 3:Darkness and Desire, 1804–1864 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002).
4. Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred, trans. Patrick Gregory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), 14.
5. Ibid. Girard is being rather Eurocentric on this point, as in many non-Western cultures revenge is not only not proscribed, it is morally mandated.