Creating kabuki plays : context for Kezairoku, "Valuable notes on playwriting" / / by Katherine Saltzman-Li.

This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of Ka...

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Superior document:Brill's Japanese studies library, v. 13
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / K. Saltzman-LI
  • Introduction / K. Saltzman-LI
  • I. Playmaking And Playwriting: Early Play Creation For Kabuki / K. Saltzman-LI
  • II. An Ordered System: The Later Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries / K. Saltzman-LI
  • III. Kezairoku: Legitimacy And Methodology For The \'Way\' Of The Playwright / K. Saltzman-LI
  • IV. Kabuki Playwriting: The Literary Connection / K. Saltzman-LI
  • V. Kabuki Playwriting: The Oral Connection / K. Saltzman-LI
  • Epilogue / K. Saltzman-LI
  • Appendix I. Translation Of Sakusha Shikiho: Kezairoku / K. Saltzman-LI
  • Appendix II. Role Types In Kezairoku.. / K. Saltzman-LI
  • Appendix III. Glossary Of Transliterated Terms .. / K. Saltzman-LI
  • Bibliography / K. Saltzman-LI
  • Index / K. Saltzman-LI.