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Here for the first time are translations of five plays by Oh T'ae-sok, Korea's leading playwright and one of the most original dramatists and stage-directors working in Asia today. Drawing inspiration from both East and West and combining styles as disparate as ancient Korean masked dance-drama and contemporary avant-garde theater, these plays range from raucous comedy to historical tragedy, from explorations of the impact of the Korean War to bitter satires of modern Korean life. In Bicycle, a village clerk encounters spirits of the dead, the real-life victims of a fire set by North Korean soldiers thirty years ago, and a family of lepers whose daughter burns down her parents' house in a desperate act of penitential sacrifice. The tragedy Intimacy between Father and Son takes its inspiration from the dilemma of an eighteenth-century king whose only son and heir developed a mysterious mental disorder that manifested itself in murderous violence and sexual promiscuity. In the end, the king must decide whether to force his son to commit suicide or risk the destruction of the dynasty. In the wildly comic Ch'un-p'ung's Wife, derived from a traditional tale of a wife's search for her ph

Author

Oh T'ae-sok

Publisher

Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585322537

Subjects

Drama, Literary Fiction, Humanities