Research Catalog

Title

A kabuki reader : history and performance / Samuel L. Leiter, editor.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leiter, Samuel L.

Description

xxxii, 430 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Japan in the modern world

Uniform Title

Japan in the modern world

Subject

Kabuki > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History (form)
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• "An east gate book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-398) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Performing arts of sixteenth-century Japan : a prelude to kabuki / Andrew T. Tsubaki -- Origins of kabuki acting in medieval Japanese drama / Laurence R. Kominz -- Bakufu versus kabuki / Donald H. Shively -- Nakamura Shichisaburō I and the creation of Edo-style wagoto / Holly A. Blumner -- Episodes in the career of the kabuki actor Nakamura Utaemon III, including his rivalry with Arashi Rikan I / Charles J. Dunn -- Flowers of Edo : eighteenth-century kabuki and its patrons / C. Andrew Gerstle -- Hiiki Renchū (theatre of fan clubs) in Osaka in the early nineteenth century / Susumu Matsudaira -- Kabuki goes official : the 1878 opening of the Shintomi-za / Yuichirō Takahashi -- Breaking the kabuki actors' barriers : 1868-1900 / Faith Bach -- Communist kabuki : a contradiction in terms? / Brian Powell -- New (neo) kabuki and the work of Hanagumi Shibai / Natsuko Inoue -- From gay to gei : the onnagata and the creation of kabuki's female characters / Samuel L. Leiter -- Actor, role, and character : their multiple interrelationships in kabuki / Barbara E. Thornbury -- Kabuki : signs, symbols, and the hieroglyphic actor / Leonard C. Pronko -- Tsurane of Shibaraku : communicating the power of identity / Katherine Saltzman-Li -- Conjuring kuzunoha from the world of Abe no Seimei / Janet E. Goff -- Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry : a Japanese puppet play and its metamorphosis to kabuki / Stanleigh H. Jones Jr. -- Kabuki and the Elizabethan theatre / Leonard C. Pronko -- Kabuki : changes and prospects : an international symposium / James R. Brandon -- Kabuki as national culture : a critical survey of Japanese kabuki scholarship / William Lee.

ISBN

• 0765607042 (alk. paper)
• 0765607050 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001020301

OCLC

• 45890413
• SCSB-11604395

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library