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Format: 1 online resource (737 pages)

ISBN: 9780231537131 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Columbia anthology of modern Japanese drama. New York : Columbia University Press, c2014 ISBN 9780231128308

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource (737 p.)

Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

ISBN: 0-231-53713-1

Content: 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. Divided into six chronological sections: ?The Age of Taisho Drama"; The Tsukiji Tsukiji Little Theater and Its Aftermath"; ?Wartime and Postwar Drama"; ?The 1960's and Underground Theater"; ?The 1980's and Beyond"; and ? Popular Theater," the collection opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji period drama and provides an informal yet complete history of twentieth-century Japanese theater

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , A Note on Japanese Names -- , Introduction: The Prelude to Modern Drama in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) -- , PART I. THE AGE OF "TAISHŌ DRAMA" -- , Introduction / , Kerria Japonica / , Father returns / , The Skeletons' Dance / , PART II. THE TSUKIJI LITTLE THEATER AND ITS AFTERMATH -- , Introduction / , The Couple Next Door / , A Nero in Skirts / , Paper Balloon / , Fascist Doll / , Restless night in late spring / , Japanese Women Playwrights: From Meiji to the Present / , PART III. WARTIME AND POSTWAR DRAMA -- , Introduction / , A Woman's Life / , The Man Who Turned into a Stick / , Ceremonial Clothes / , Twilight Crane / , Education / , PART IV. THE 1960's AND UNDERGROUND THEATER -- , Introduction / , The Little Match Girl / , Two Women / , Poison Boy / , The Dressing Room: That Which Flows Away Ultimately Becomes Nostalgia / , The Earth Station / , Living with Father / , PART V. THE 1980's AND BEYOND -- , Introduction / , Poems for Sale / , Tokyo Notes / , The Attic / , Five Days in March / , PART VI. POPULAR THEATER -- , Introduction / , Nihonbashi / , The Rose of Versailles: A Takarazuka Grand Romantic Play / , The Sardine Seller's Net of Love / , Selected Bibliography -- , Permissions , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-12830-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-306-77637-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/rime12830