Modern Korean Drama: An Anthology

Edited by Richard Nichols

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Paper, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14947-1
$25.00 / £17.50

October, 2009
Cloth, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14946-4
$50.00 / £34.50

"Modern Korean Drama is a long overdue publication for English-speaking readers. These plays, as the editor rightly claims, are truly representative of modern Korean drama written by Korean writers and presented for Korean audiences. Subject matter is drawn from Korean history, culture, wars, and more, yet they are written under the influence of diverse past theaters-traditional Korean performing arts, Western-influenced realism, the Korean version of the theater of cruelty, and the Theater of the Absurd. This publication is an ultimate triumph not only for the authors, translators, editor, and publisher but also for students of Korean drama and potential audiences in English-speaking theater communities." — Oh-Kon Cho, State University of New York at Brockport

"If one has to pick just one book, either to be initiated into the modern dramatic tradition of Korea or to teach Korean drama in classes such as world theater or Korean cultural studies, this is the right volume." — Suk-Young Kim, Journal of Asian Studies

"Finely produced and meticulously edited." — Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times

"an invaluable reference for anyone interested in Korean theatre" — Jan Creutzenberg, Acta Koreana

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Drama
• East Asian Studies

About the Author

Richard Nichols is emeritus professor of theater at Penn State University. A senior Fulbright research scholar in Seoul from 2002 to 2003, Nichols has taught at Korea University, Sungkyunkwan University, and the Korean National University of the Arts. He has published numerous articles on Korean theater and is the cotranslator of Four Contemporary Korean Plays by Lee Yun-Taek.

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