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The 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

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Author

Akihiko Watanabe, Bobby Xinyue, Gesine Manuwald, Stephen Harrison, William M. Barton, Haruka Oba, Florian Schaffenrath

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350217195

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Collections, Christian, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25