A Study of Narrative in KARA Juro's Plays
2001 Volume 39 Pages 31-42
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2001 Volume 39 Pages 31-42
While ‘shingeki’, the modern drama in Japan, tends to eliminate the narrative element from drama, KARA Juro, one of the earliest counter-shingeki playwrights in the 1960s, uses in his plays unique techniques of narrative, which can be traced in the traditional Japanese theatre as well. KARA's narrative has three aspects: (1) narration in the third person, (2) narration in the first person, that is, the ‘monological’ narration, and (3) narration by plural persons, that is, the ‘dialogical’ narration. The present paper examines these narrative techniques in KARA's plays.
