The Columbia anthology of modern Japanese drama

The Columbia anthology of modern Japanese drama / J. Thomas Rimer, Mitsuya Mori, & M. Cody Poulton, editors.

"This anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's best and most representative twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century works in one volume. Divided into six chronological sections: The Age of Taisho Drama; The Tsukiji Tsukiji Little...

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Other Authors: Rimer, J. Thomas (Editor), Mōri, Mitsuya, 1937- (Editor), Poulton, M. Cody, 1955- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Japanese
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
1900-2099
Japanese drama > 20th century > Translations into English.
Japanese drama > 21st century > Translations into English.
Japanese drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Japanese drama > 21st century > History and criticism.
Theater > Japan > History > 20th century.
Theater > Japan > History > 21st century.
FICTION > General.
Japanese drama
Theater
Japanisch
Drama
Japan
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Translations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on Japanese Names
  • Introduction: The Prelude to Modern Drama in the Meiji Era (1868-1912)
  • PART I. THE AGE OF "TAISHŌ DRAMA"
  • Introduction
  • Kerria Japonica
  • Father returns
  • The Skeletons' Dance
  • PART II. THE TSUKIJI LITTLE THEATER AND ITS AFTERMATH
  • Introduction
  • The Couple Next Door
  • A Nero in Skirts
  • Paper Balloon
  • Fascist Doll
  • Restless night in late spring
  • Japanese Women Playwrights: From Meiji to the Present
  • PART III. WARTIME AND POSTWAR DRAMA
  • Introduction
  • A Woman's Life
  • The Man Who Turned into a Stick
  • Ceremonial Clothes
  • Twilight Crane
  • Education
  • PART IV. THE 1960S AND UNDERGROUND THEATER
  • Introduction
  • The Little Match Girl
  • Two Women
  • Poison Boy
  • The Dressing Room: That Which Flows Away Ultimately Becomes Nostalgia
  • The Earth Station
  • Living with Father
  • PART V. THE 1980S AND BEYOND
  • Introduction
  • Poems for Sale
  • Tokyo Notes
  • The Attic
  • Five Days in March
  • PART VI. POPULAR THEATER
  • Introduction
  • Nihonbashi
  • The Rose of Versailles: A Takarazuka Grand Romantic Play
  • The Sardine Seller's Net of Love
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Permissions.

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