Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3 : : Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864 / / 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (414 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |