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Earl S. Ernst (1911-1994) was an American scholar best known for his study and advocacy of Japanese and Asian theater. He taught at University of Hawai'i at Manoa for his entire academic careeer.

Career

His last piece of writing was a novel, Finding Monju, pulished in 2000, after his death, which tells of a group of American gay soldiers in Occupation Japan. The narrator says at one point of his experience, "in this wretched feudal country I'd found freedom I'd never known in the victorious land of the free." Donald Richie, reviewing it in Japan Times wrote that it "offers one of the best descriptions of what the occupation was like, a time where one "breathed the ache of destruction," yet was expected to somehow "beautify it, to get [the Japanese] off the parallel track of their evil behavior and onto the loveliness of ours."

Major publications

1954.

• "Notes on the Form of Kabuki" Educational Theatre Journal 6 1954 (3-4):201-209, 303-310.
• The Kabuki Theatre. London: 1966 Secker and Warburg.
• "A Theatre . . . of Beauty without Tears." Hudson Review 11 (2): 262-270.
• Three Japanese Plays from the Traditional Theatre. London: Oxford University Press 1958.
• "No Drama (Noh)." Encyclopaedia Britannica 1964 16: 479.
• "The Influence of Japanese Theatrical Style on Western Theatre." Educational Theatre Journal 1969 21 (2): 127-138.

References

• Brandon, James R. (2011), "Earle S. Ernst", Asian Theatre Journal, 28 (2): 332–40, JSTOR 41306496 Accessed 19 Sept. 2024.

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