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Four contemporary Korean plays
“South Korean drama has received considerable attention in Europe and Asia, but, until recently, received only scant attention in the United States. This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea’s leading theatre artists. These works reflect the nature of Lee Yun-Taek’s genius, his contributions to contemporary Korean theatre, and the socio-political climate in…
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Allegory of survival : the theater of Kang-baek Lee
In the civil and government upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s in Korea, Kang-baek Lee began his distinguished playwriting career. He is perhaps best known as the premier writer of social commentary in the form of allegories in an effort to circumvent extremely strict censorship laws which were heavily enforced until 1989. However, Lee is…
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Three Generations
“The novel, filled with gossip and family intrigue as scandalous as any contemporary soap opera, reads deliciously like a Dostoevsky novel or ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ meets Korea’s traditional middle class.”- ‘KoreAm Magazine’ ‘Three Generations’ charts the tensions in the Jo family in 1930s Japanese-occupied Seoul. One of Korea’s most important works of fiction, ‘Three Generations’…
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