Toward a Modern Japanese Theatre —— Kishida Kunio

----- 走进现代日本剧场：岸田国士

ISBN: 9780691618562 出版年：2015 页码：323 Rimer, J Thomas Princeton University Press

Long accustomed to writing in the tradition of the flamboyant kabuki, japanese dramatists had a more difficult struggle in modernizing their art than did writers of fiction and poetry. The work of kishida kunio, however, established and matured modern japanese drama, modeled on the western psychological drama of ibsen and chekhov. J. Thomas rimer traces the initial modernization efforts undertaken by the first generation of japanese playwrights of the shingeki, or "new theatre.'" his study then concentrates on the work of kishida kunio, the most important figure in the japanese theatre of the 1930s and 1940s. Kishida, who studied with the well-known french director jacques copeau in 1921, returned to japan with the goal of establishing a modern drama of psychological dimensions for the japanese theatre.