Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre: Kishida Kunio

by J. Thomas Rimer

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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:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691645566

ISBN13:9780691645568

Release Date:April 2016

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:324 Pages

Weight:1.39 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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