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9780765607058

A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance: History and Performance

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    9780765607058

  • ISBN10:

    0765607050

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-06-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Table of Contents

Illustrations
xi
Preface xv
Introduction xix
Samuel L. Leiter
Part 1. Kabuki History
The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki
3(13)
Andrew T. Tsubaki
Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama
16(17)
Laurence R. Kominz
Bakufu Versus Kabuki
33(27)
Donald H. Shively
Nakamura Shichisaburo I and the Creation of Edo-Style Wagoto
60(16)
Holly A. Blumner
Episodes in the Career of the Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III, Including His Rivalry with Arashi Rikan I
76(36)
Charles J. Dunn
Flowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and Its Patrons
88(24)
C. Andrew Gerstle
Hiiki Renchu (Theatre Fan Clubs) in Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century
112(11)
Susumu Matsudaira
Kabuki Goes Official: The 1878 Opening of the Shintomi-za
123(29)
Yuichiro Takahashi
Breaking the Kabuki Actors' Barriers: 1868-1900
152(15)
Faith Bach
Communist Kabuki: A Contradiction in Terms?
167(19)
Brian Powell
New (Neo) Kabuki and the Work of Hanagumi Shibai
186(25)
Natsuko Inoue
Part 2. Kabuki Performance
From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters
211(19)
Samuel L. Leiter
Actor, Role, and Character: Their Multiple Interrelationships in Kabuki
230(8)
Barbara E. Thornbury
Kabuki: Signs, Symbols, and the Hieroglyphic Actor
238(15)
Leonard C. Pronko
The Tsurane of Shibaraku: Communicating the Power of Identity
253(16)
Katherine Saltzman-Li
Conjuring Kuzunoha from the World of Abe no Seimei
269(15)
Janet E. Goff
Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry: A Japanese Puppet Play and Its Metamorphosis to Kabuki
284(45)
Stanleigh H. Jones Jr.
Kabuki and the Elizabethan Theatre
329(14)
Leonard C. Pronko
Part 3. Surveying the Field
Kabuki: Changes and Prospects: An International Symposium
343(16)
James R. Brandon
Kabuki as National Culture: A Critical Survey of Japanese Kabuki Scholarship
359(32)
William Lee
Selected Bibliography 391(8)
About the Editor and Contributors 399(6)
Index 405

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