The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama

by J. Thomas Rimer

Book Overview

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. It opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji-period drama and follows with six chronological sections: "The Age of Taisho Drama"; The Tsukiji Little Theater and Its Aftermath"; "Wartime and Postwar Drama"; "The 1960s and Underground Theater"; "The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231128312
• ISBN13: 9780231128315
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher