Chikamatsu by C. Andrew Gerstle PAPERBACK 9780231121675

ChikamatsuFive Late Plays\nAuthor(s): C. Andrew Gerstle, Chikamatsu, C. Andrew Gerstle\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231121675, 978-0231121675\nSynopsis\nChikamatsu Monzaemon [tel], 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. Translations of Chikamatsu's plays are available, but we have few examples of his late work, in which he increasingly incorporated stylistic elements of his shorter, contemporary dramas into his longer period pieces. Translator C. Andrew Gerstle argues that in these mature history plays, Chikamatsu depicted t.