Japan on the Jesuit Stage : : Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts.

"Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of early modern Japan in contemporary European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Pe...

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Superior document:Jesuit Studies ; v.34
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2021.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Jesuit Studies
Physical Description:1 online resource (350 pages)
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Summary:"Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of early modern Japan in contemporary European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies"--
ISBN:900444890X
Hierarchical level:Monograph