Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre : : Kishida Kunio / / J. Thomas Rimer.
Long accustomed to writing in the tradition of the flamboyant kabuki, Japanese dramatists had a more difficult struggle in modernizing their art than did writers of fiction and poetry. The work of Kishida Kunio, however, established and matured modern Japanese drama, modeled on the western psycholog...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1974 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- I. Introduction
- II. Modernization or Westernization: The Movement for a Modern Theatre in Japan before 1925
- III. Kishida Kunio and the New Theatre Movement in 1925
- IV. Kishida as a Man of the Theatre
- V. Kishida as a Playwright
- VI. The Plays
- VII. Kishida's Achievement
- VIII. Conclusion
- Appendix I: The New Theatre Movement Since 1939
- Appendix II: Biographical Notes on Kishida's Life
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter