Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Two 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and Commentary
Akihiko Watanabe
Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Two 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and Commentary
Akihiko Watanabe
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In this groundbreaking study of Jesuit theatre in seventeenth-century Germany, the author provides a critical study of two Latin plays performed at the Jesuit colleges in Koblenz (Japanese Martyrs, 1625) and Munich (Victor the Japanese, 1665) respectively. Both dramas reflect the influence of the Jesuit mission in Japan on the European imagination
In this groundbreaking study of Jesuit theatre in seventeenth-century Germany, the author provides a critical study of two Latin plays performed at the Jesuit colleges in Koblenz (Japanese Martyrs, 1625) and Munich (Victor the Japanese, 1665) respectively. Both dramas reflect the influence of the Jesuit mission in Japan on the European imagination
Akihiko Watanabe is Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Culture at Otsuma Women’s University, Japan.
In this groundbreaking study of Jesuit theatre in seventeenth-century Germany, the author provides a critical study of two Latin plays performed at the Jesuit colleges in Koblenz (Japanese Martyrs, 1625) and Munich (Victor the Japanese, 1665) respectively. Both dramas reflect the influence of the Jesuit mission in Japan on the European imagination
Akihiko Watanabe is Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Culture at Otsuma Women’s University, Japan.