Publisher:
Methuen Drama (UK),, London [England] :
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
"Chichi Kaeru' Father Returns, 1917) was adapted from the 1905 British drama "The Return of the Prodigal" by St John Emile Clavering Hankin. Like Shaw, Hankin was a proponent of Edwardian 'NewDrama' and inspired Kikuchi to use his play to advocate...
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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"Chichi Kaeru' Father Returns, 1917) was adapted from the 1905 British drama "The Return of the Prodigal" by St John Emile Clavering Hankin. Like Shaw, Hankin was a proponent of Edwardian 'NewDrama' and inspired Kikuchi to use his play to advocate liberal values in Japan. The play initially did not make much of an impression when published, but Ichikawa Ennosuke I's staging of the play in Tokyo in 1920 was a huge hit. Ichikawa (1855„AØ℗€℗“1922) was an innovative kabuki actor who also became involved in the staging of modern drama." Father Returns" is regarded as a model one-act play because of its dramatic structure and realistic dialogue and as a model modern drama because of its depiction of a clearly identifiable conflict between traditional values and modern humanism."--
