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Japan 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.

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""Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers an array of fresh avenues to scholars, from information networks to religious, social, cultural, and political dynamics between Europe and Asia. It recommends itself to scholars engaged in questions about early modern theater that cross nations, languages, and cultures."" - Andrew S. Keener, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1104–1106

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Haruka Oba, Ph.D. (2010, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) is associate professor in the Faculty of Literature at Kurume University in Japan. Her field of research is early modern Europe, especially the history of the depiction of the Japanese people in the German-speaking areas. Akihiko Watanabe, Ph.D. (2003, Yale University) is professor in the Department of Comparative Culture at Otsuma Women’s University. His research interests are the Greco-Roman classics, classical reception, and Neo-Latin, especially when pertaining to Japan. Florian Schaffenrath, Ph.D. (2005, University of Innsbruck) is director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies. He has published on regional Neo-Latin literature and epic poetry in particular. Since 2018, he is general editor of the Acta Conventus Neolatini (Brill).

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