Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays; Author: Gerstle, C. Andrew; Paperback

Author: Gerstle, C. Andrew
Translations from the Asian Classics (Paperback); Paperback
376 pages
Published: September 2002
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231121679

Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as Japans 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 and in the modern theater, and forty-nine films of his plays have been made, thirty-one of them from the silent era. In this volume, Gerstle translates five plays never before available in English that complement other collections of Chikamatsus work.One of the most famous playwrights in Japanese history, Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote over 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theatres. This is a collection of five of his later works.