Chikamatsu
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: September 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780231121675
Subjects: Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays / Drama; Literary Criticism; East Asia, Far East; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Asian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian
Description: "Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today the plays of this major literary figure are performed on kabuki and bunraku stages as well as in the modern theater, and forty-nine films of his plays have been made, thirty-one of them from the silent era.".

"In this volume Gerstle translates five plays - four histories and one contemporary piece - never before available in English that complement other collections of Chikamatsu's work, revealing new dimensions to the work of this great Japanese playwright and artist."--BOOK JACKET.