Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts
Published on 4. November 2021
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-90-04-43618-3 (ISBN)
Description
Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern 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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers an array of fresh avenues to scholars, from information networks to religious, social, cultural, and political dynamics between Europe and Asia. It recommends itself to scholars engaged in questions about early modern theater that cross nations, languages, and cultures." - Andrew S. Keener, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1104-1106More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43618-3 (9789004436183)
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Persons
Haruka Oba, Ph.D. (2010, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) is associate professor in the Faculty of Literature at Kurume University in Japan. Her field of research is early modern Europe, especially the history of the depiction of the Japanese people in the German-speaking areas.
Akihiko Watanabe, Ph.D. (2003, Yale University) is professor in the Department of Comparative Culture at Otsuma Women's University. His research interests are the Greco-Roman classics, classical reception, and Neo-Latin, especially when pertaining to Japan.
Florian Schaffenrath, Ph.D. (2005, University of Innsbruck) is director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies. He has published on regional Neo-Latin literature and epic poetry in particular. Since 2018, he is general editor of the Acta Conventus Neolatini (Brill).
Akihiko Watanabe, Ph.D. (2003, Yale University) is professor in the Department of Comparative Culture at Otsuma Women's University. His research interests are the Greco-Roman classics, classical reception, and Neo-Latin, especially when pertaining to Japan.
Florian Schaffenrath, Ph.D. (2005, University of Innsbruck) is director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies. He has published on regional Neo-Latin literature and epic poetry in particular. Since 2018, he is general editor of the Acta Conventus Neolatini (Brill).
Content
List of Figures
Part 1: Preliminaries
Introduction
?Maria Maciejewska, Haruka Oba, Florian Schaffenrath and Akihiko Watanabe
1 Found in Translation: The Jesuit Japan Letters as a Source of Early Modern European Images of Japan
?Patrick Reinhart Schwemmer
2 Christianomachia Iaponensis: The Japanese Martyr on Stage
?Mirjam Doepfert
Part 2: Geographical Overviews
3 Japanese Martyrs in French Jesuit Drama (Late Seventeenth-Early Eighteenth Century): Between Violence and Bienseance
?Hitomi Omata Rappo
4 Titus Iapon on the Jesuit Stage in the Provincia Flandro-Belgica: Neo-Latin Intertextuality and the Economics of Jesuit Drama
?Nicholas De Sutter and Goran Proot
5 Japan and the Japanese in Jesuit School Plays from the Bohemian Province of the Society of Jesus
?Katerina Bobkova-Valentova and Magdalena Jackova
6 Traces of Japan in Croatian Latin School Drama, 1600-1800
?Nina Cengic and Neven Jovanovic
7 Not Only Titus the Japanese: Japan and the Japanese on the Jesuit Stage in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
?Monika Miazek-Meczynska
8 Early Christian Japanese Sources of Jesuit Theater in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
?Justyna Lukaszewska-Haberkowa
Part 3: Case Studies
9 Majesty and Silence: An Honorable, Bald Old Man Named Japan
?Margarida Miranda
10 The Development of Jesuit Drama on Japan in Bavaria: The Historical Context of the Play Victor, Staged in Munich in 1665
?Haruka Oba
11 The Japanese Senex Iratus: The Munich Victor Play
?Akihiko Watanabe
Part 1: Preliminaries
Introduction
?Maria Maciejewska, Haruka Oba, Florian Schaffenrath and Akihiko Watanabe
1 Found in Translation: The Jesuit Japan Letters as a Source of Early Modern European Images of Japan
?Patrick Reinhart Schwemmer
2 Christianomachia Iaponensis: The Japanese Martyr on Stage
?Mirjam Doepfert
Part 2: Geographical Overviews
3 Japanese Martyrs in French Jesuit Drama (Late Seventeenth-Early Eighteenth Century): Between Violence and Bienseance
?Hitomi Omata Rappo
4 Titus Iapon on the Jesuit Stage in the Provincia Flandro-Belgica: Neo-Latin Intertextuality and the Economics of Jesuit Drama
?Nicholas De Sutter and Goran Proot
5 Japan and the Japanese in Jesuit School Plays from the Bohemian Province of the Society of Jesus
?Katerina Bobkova-Valentova and Magdalena Jackova
6 Traces of Japan in Croatian Latin School Drama, 1600-1800
?Nina Cengic and Neven Jovanovic
7 Not Only Titus the Japanese: Japan and the Japanese on the Jesuit Stage in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
?Monika Miazek-Meczynska
8 Early Christian Japanese Sources of Jesuit Theater in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
?Justyna Lukaszewska-Haberkowa
Part 3: Case Studies
9 Majesty and Silence: An Honorable, Bald Old Man Named Japan
?Margarida Miranda
10 The Development of Jesuit Drama on Japan in Bavaria: The Historical Context of the Play Victor, Staged in Munich in 1665
?Haruka Oba
11 The Japanese Senex Iratus: The Munich Victor Play
?Akihiko Watanabe