Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3 : : Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864 / / ed. by Samuel L. Leiter, James R. Brandon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Brandon, James R.,; Leiter, Samuel L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Brandon, James R.,; Leiter, Samuel L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; The Tale of Tokubei from India Tenjiku Tokubei Ikoku-Banashi --; Sanbasò with His Tongue Stuck Out Shitadashi Sanbasò --; The Scandalous Love of Osome and Hisamatsu --; Yasuna --; The Execution Ground at Suzugamori Suzugamori --; Kasane --; The Ghost Stories at Yotsuya on the Tòkaidò Tòkaidò Yotsuya Kaidan --; The Wisteria Maiden Fuji Musume --; The Six Poet Immortals Rokkasen --; Masakado --; The Tale of the Martyr of Sakura Sakura Giminden --; The Three Kichisas and the New Year’s First Visit to the Pleasure Quarters --; Gorozò the Gallant Gosho no Gorozò --; Scarface Otomi Kirare Otomi --; Glossary --; Selected Bibliography --; Contributors --; Index --; List of Plays by Volume
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824844752; 9783110649772; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824844752
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Samuel L. Leiter, James R. Brandon.

Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, is the third volume in a monumental new series-the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in nearly a quarter of a century. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era.The fourteen plays translated in Volume 3, Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, mark an extreme point in the development of kabuki dramaturgy. The plays are remarkable, even within kabuki, for their intense theatricality, gutsy individualism of character, cold-blooded and ferocious violence, realism pushed into fantasy and grotesquery, novelty for its own sake, sexual aggressiveness, and assertion of female will. The plays depict a society in extremis, the end of an era, a time often marked by unmitigated darkness and desire.