Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"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"--

Jesuit theater --- Jesuit drama --- Latin drama, Medieval and modern --- Japan in literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Christian drama --- Theater, Jesuit --- Theater --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church --- J4129 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Christian religious orders --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Neo-Latin literature --- Japan