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

By and Florian Schaffenrath, Haruka Oba, Akihiko Watanabe

Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004436189
• ISBN13: 9789004436183
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"