Minami Ryuta is Associate Professor of English at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. He has co-edited, with Ian Carruthers and John Gillies, a CD-ROM on Deguchi Norio's productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Department of Theatre and Dance, La Trobe University. He also compiled a chronology of Shakespearean performances in Japan for Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. Ian Carruthers is Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne. As Visiting Professor at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, he taught traditional Japanese theatre and in 1994 won a Japan Foundation Fellowship to research the theatre of Suzuki Tadashi. He has since co-written a book, with Yasunari Takahashi, entitled The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi which will be published by Cambridge University Press. John Gillies is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow at the School of Arts & Media, La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has published numerous articles and book chapters. He is also the author of Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 and, with Virginia Mason Vaughan, Playing the Globe (1998).
