A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance
0765607042, 9780765607041, 9781315706832
Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world's great theatrical
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Year 2002
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Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction, by Samuel L. Leiter
Part 1. Kabuki History
1. The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki, by Andrew T. Tsubaki
2. Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama, by Laurence R. Kominz
3. Bakufu Versus Kabuki, by Donald H. Shively
4. Nakamura Shichisaburo I and the Creation of Edo-Style Wagoto, by Holly A. Blumner
5. Episodes in the Career of the Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III, Including His Rivalry with Arashi Rikan I, by Charles J. Dunn
6. Rowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and Its Patrons, by C. Andrew Gerstle
7. Hiiki Renchū (Theatre Fan Clubs) in Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century, by Susumu Matsudaira
8. Kabuki Goes Official: The 1878 Opening of the Shintomi-za, by Yuichirō Takahashi
9. Breaking the Kabuki Actors’ Barriers: 1868-1900, by Faith Bach
10. Communist Kabuki: A Contradiction in Terms?, by Brian Powell
11. New (Neo) Kabuki and the Work of Hanagumi Shibai, by Natsuko Inoue
Part 2. Kabuki Performance
12. From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters, by Samuel L. Leiter
13. Actor, Role. and Character: Their Multiple Interrelationships in Kabuki, by Barbara E. Thornbury
14. Kabuki: Signs, Symbols, and the Hieroglyphic Actor, by Leonard C. Pronko
15. The Tsurane of Shibaraku: Communicating the Power of Identity, by Katherine Saltzman-Li
16. Conjuring Kuzunoha from the World of Abe no Seimei, by Janet E. Goff
17. Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry: A Japanese Puppet Play and Its Metamorphosis to Kabuki, by Stanleigh H. Jones Jr.
18. Kabuki and the Elizabethan Theatre, by Leonard C. Pronko
Part 3. Surveying the Field
19. Kabuki: Changes and Prospects: An Intemational Symposium, by James R. Brandon
20. Kabuki as National Culture: A Critical Survey of Japanese Kabuki Scholarship, by William Lee
Selected Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index