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Book SynopsisJapan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship, but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Part 1: Preliminaries Introduction Maria Maciejewska, Haruka Oba, Florian Schaffenrath and Akihiko Watanabe 1 Found in Translation: The Jesuit Japan Letters as a Source of Early Modern European Images of Japan Patrick Reinhart Schwemmer 2 Christianomachia Iaponensis: The Japanese Martyr on Stage Mirjam Döpfert Part 2: Geographical Overviews 3 Japanese Martyrs in French Jesuit Drama (Late Seventeenth–Early Eighteenth Century): Between Violence and Bienséance Hitomi Omata Rappo 4 Titus Iapon on the Jesuit Stage in the Provincia Flandro-Belgica: Neo-Latin Intertextuality and the Economics of Jesuit Drama Nicholas De Sutter and Goran Proot 5 Japan and the Japanese in Jesuit School Plays from the Bohemian Province of the Society of Jesus Kateřina Bobková-Valentová and Magdaléna Jacková 6 Traces of Japan in Croatian Latin School Drama, 1600–1800 Nina Čengić and Neven Jovanović 7 Not Only Titus the Japanese: Japan and the Japanese on the Jesuit Stage in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Monika Miazek-Męczyńska 8 Early Christian Japanese Sources of Jesuit Theater in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa Part 3: Case Studies 9 Majesty and Silence: An Honorable, Bald Old Man Named Japan Margarida Miranda 10 The Development of Jesuit Drama on Japan in Bavaria: The Historical Context of the Play Victor, Staged in Munich in 1665 Haruka Oba 11 The Japanese Senex Iratus: The Munich Victor Play Akihiko Watanabe
