Cody PoultonCody Poulton is professor of Japanese literature and theatre at the University of Victoria, Canada. His recent publications include Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka (2001), twenty entries on modern Japanese theatre for The Oxford Encclopedia of Theatre and Performance (2003) and A Beggar's Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930 (2010). He has also been active as a translator of kabuki and modern Japanese drama, for both publication and live stage productions in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Japan. He is currently working (with Mitsuya Mori and J. Thomas Rimer) on The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama. Read More Read Less