Sukeroku's Double Identity : : The Dramatic Structure of Edo Kabuki / / Barbara Thornbury.

• VerfasserIn: Thornbury, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (113 pages)

The aim of this book is to show that seemingly illogical double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku is a surviving element of what was once a complex and coherent structure based on a traditional performance calendar. To show how the calendar function...