Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 1 : : Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766 / / / ed. by James R. Brandon, Samuel L. Leiter.

Kabuki Plays On Stage represents a monumental achievement in Japanese theatre studies, being the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in twenty-five years. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during th...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Felicitous Soga Encounter
  • Just A Minute!
  • Matahei the Stutterer
  • The Medicine Peddler
  • The Stone-Cutting Feat of Kajiwara
  • Lady Kuzunoha
  • The Secret Art of Rowing
  • Summer Festival: Mirror of Osaka
  • The Skylight
  • The Sanemori Story
  • The Golden Pavilion
  • The Heron Maiden
  • Japan's Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety
  • GLOSSARY
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • KABUKI PLAYS ON STAGE