1. Drama.
- Author
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Noguchi, Yone
- Subjects
AUTHORS ,DRAMA ,STUDENTS ,LITERATURE - Abstract
The literary surrender of Japan to the West is coming to be quite complete, as it seemed this spring people turned their faces instinctively to William Shakespeare to be rescued from the literary drought, and with no slightest suspicion of the Baconian authorship, blew most ardently our trumpet blast on his three hundredth anniversary, to use Ben Jonson's words, to the memory of our Beloved Master and his writings that neither man nor muse could praise too much. The author admit that there are many Japanese students who demand a wide license for a new interpretation of Shakespeare from their Japanese point of view, and who look enviously upon the German audacity in saying that he was discovered in Berlin.
- Published
- 1916