The Theatre of Suzuki Tadashi (Directors in Perspective)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521044325
Subjects: Stage & theatre management; Theatre, drama; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; Japan; Theater - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General
First sentence: No historian of Japanese theatre will object to the view that modern Western-oriented theatre in Japan really started with the production of Othello and Hamlet in 1903 by one of the Shinpa (New School) companies, or perhaps more truly with the completely Westernized production of Hamlet in 1911 by a company called Bungei Kyokai (the Literary Society) led by the famous Shakespeare scholar and critic Tsubouchi Shoyo.