Editor’s Note
Samuel L. Leiter, iii

ARTICLES

On Shimizu Kunio’s Play: May Even Lunatics Die in Peace
Inoue Yoshie; translated by Mari Boyd, 1

Inoue Yoshie’s article, “On Shimizu Kunio’s Play: May Even Lunatics Die in Peace” (Shimizu Kunio “Kyöjin naomote Öjö o togu—Mukashi Bokutachi Aishita”) is published in Twentieth-Century Japanese Drama II (Nijusseiki no Engeki II—Nihon Kindai Gikyoku no Tenkaii), edited by the Japan Modern Theatre History Research Group (2001). This comprehensive collection of criticism by twenty-eight critics covers fifty-one playwrights and their plays written between 1946 and 1973. Beginning with playwright Hotta Kiyomi and his play Untenkö no Musuko (The Son of a Machine Operator, 1947), the book treats works by noted playwrights such as Mishima Yukio, Abe Köbö, Tanaka Chikao, Kishida Kunio, Kubo Sakae, Betsuyaku Minoru, and Terayama Shüji. It also discusses playwrights who are not so well known overseas such as Yamada Tokiko, Suzuki Masao, Mafune Yutaka, and Nakano Minoru. Inoue Yoshie is professor of theatre, literature, and women’s studies at Kibi International University. She has written Kindai Engeki no Tobira o Akeru (Opening the Doors to Modern Theatre: The Sociology of Dramaturgy, 1999) and Kubo Sakae no Sekai (The World of Kubo Sakae, 1989), which received the thirty-second Kawatake Award ( Japan Theatre Association). Her coauthored publications include Higuchi Ichiyö o Yominaosu (Rereading Higuchi Ichiyö, 1994) and Arishima Takeo no Sakuhin [ge] (The Works of Arishima Takeo, Part II, 1995). She is an editor of the three-volume Twentieth-Century Japanese Drama series.

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