Japan on the Jesuit Stage by Akihiko Watanabe - 9781350217201

Japan on the Jesuit StageTwo 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and Commentary\nAuthor(s): Akihiko Watanabe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350217201, 978-1350217201\nSynopsis\nThe Jesuits were a major source of European information on Japan from the late 16th to early 17th century. Not only were they active missionaries but they also produced linguistic, religious and cultural tracts, regional chronicles, as well as hundreds of Latin plays written in imitation of classical Greco-Roman theatre but set in Japan. An intriguing yet underexplored segment of Jesuit school theatre is that which stages non-classical, non-Western subjects such as Japan, and this volume is the first to present Latin texts of two of these plays alongside full English translations, commentaries and an extensive introduction.\n\n The plays in question - Martyrs of Japan and Victor the Japanese - were performed in Koblenz a.