Japan on the Jesuit Stage

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).

• List of FiguresPart 1: PreliminariesIntroductionMaria Maciejewska, Haruka Oba, Florian Schaffenrath and Akihiko Watanabe1 Found in Translation: The Jesuit Japan Letters as a Source of Early Modern European Images of JapanPatrick Reinhart Schwemmer2 Christianomachia Iaponensis: The Japanese Martyr on StageMirjam DöpfertPart 2: Geographical Overviews3 Japanese Martyrs in French Jesuit Drama (Late Seventeenth–Early Eighteenth Century): Between Violence and BienséanceHitomi Omata Rappo4 Titus Iapon on the Jesuit Stage in the Provincia Flandro-Belgica: Neo-Latin Intertextuality and the Economics of Jesuit DramaNicholas De Sutter and Goran Proot5 Japan and the Japanese in Jesuit School Plays from the Bohemian Province of the Society of JesusKateřina Bobková-Valentová and Magdaléna Jacková6 Traces of Japan in Croatian Latin School Drama, 1600–1800Nina Čengić and Neven Jovanović7 Not Only Titus the Japanese: Japan and the Japanese on the Jesuit Stage in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesMonika Miazek-Męczyńska8 Early Christian Japanese Sources of Jesuit Theater in the Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthJustyna Łukaszewska-HaberkowaPart 3: Case Studies9 Majesty and Silence: An Honorable, Bald Old Man Named JapanMargarida Miranda10 The Development of Jesuit Drama on Japan in Bavaria: The Historical Context of the Play Victor, Staged in Munich in 1665Haruka Oba11 The Japanese Senex Iratus: The Munich Victor PlayAkihiko Watanabe

"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