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- Title
Japan Dramas and Shakespeare at St. Omers English Jesuit College.
- Authors
Keener, Andrew S.
- Abstract
This essay examines how Catholics at the English Jesuit College at Saint-Omer reflected on Japanese religious politics during the 1620s and 1630s, both through translated mission reports and drama. This analysis expands scholars' view of English encounters with Japan; it also decenters predominantly Eurocentric approaches to early modern Jesuit education and theater. The essay concludes with a discussion of Shakespeare and George Wilkins's "Pericles," a quarto playbook of which was possessed by St. Omers and which, through the generic elements of romance it shared with the Japan material, provided further opportunities for the college's Catholics to consider transcontinental religious politics.
- Subjects
SAINT-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France); JESUITS; JESUIT education; JAPANESE drama; PERICLES, Prince of Tyre (Play : Shakespeare); EUROCENTRISM; RELIGION &; politics
- Publication
Renaissance Quarterly, 2021, Vol 74, Issue 3, p876
- ISSN
0034-4338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/rqx.2021.103