Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre: Kishida Kunio

by J. Thomas Rimer

Book Overview

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 psychological drama of Ibsen and Chekhov.

J. Thomas Rimer traces the initial modernization efforts undertaken by the first generation of Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691618569
• ISBN13: 9780691618562
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"