On Shimizu Kunio's Play: May Even Lunatics Die in Peace

Inoue Yoshie's article, "On Shimizu Kunio's Play: May Even Lunatics Die in Peace" (Shimizu Kunio "Kyojin naomote Ojo o togu—Mukashi Bokutachi Aishita") is published in Twentieth-Century Japanese Drama II (Nijusseiki no Engeki II —Nihon Kindai Gikyoku no Tenkai), edited by the Japan Modern Theatre History Research Group (2001). This comprehensive collection of criticism by twenty-eight critics covers fifty-one playwrights and their plays written between 1946 and 1973. Beginning with playwright Hotta Kiyomi and his play Untenko no Musuko (The Son of a Machine Operator, 1947), the book treats works by noted playwrights such as Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, Tanaka Chikao, Kishida Kunio, Kubo Sakae, Betsuyaku Minoru, and Terayama Shuji. It also discusses playwrights who are not so well known overseas such as Yamada Tokiko, Suzuki Masao, Mafune Yutaka, and Nakano Minoru.