A kabuki reader
Subtitle: history and performance
By: Samuel L. Leiter, editor.
Contributors: Leiter, Samuel L.
Series: Japan in the modern world
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Kabuki -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-398) and index.
"An east gate book."
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part 1. Kabuki History; title: 1. The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki; title: Andrew T. Tsubaki; title: 2. Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama; title: Laurence R. Kominz; title: 3. Bakufu Versus Kabuki; title: Donald H. Shively; title: 4. Nakamura Shichisaburo I and the Creation of Edo-Style Wagoto; title: Holly A. Blumner; title: 5. Episodes in the Career of the Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III, Including His Rivalry with Arashi Rikan I; title: Charles J. Dunn; title: 6. Flowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and Its Patrons; title: C. Andrew Gerstle; title: 7. Hiiki Renchu (Theatre Fan Clubs) in Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century; title: Susumu Matsudaira; title: 8. Kabuki Goes Official: The 1878 Opening of the Shintomi-za; title: Yuichiro Takahashi; title: 9. Breaking the Kabuki Actors' Barriers: 1868-1900; title: Faith Bach; title: 10. Communist Kabuki: A Contradiction in Terms?; title: Brian Powell; title: 11. New (Neo) Kabuki and the Work of Hanagumi Shibai; title: Natsuko Inoue; title: Part 2. Kabuki Performance; title: 12. From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters; title: Samuel L. Leiter; title: 13. Actor, Role, and Character: Their Multiple Interrelationships in Kabuki; title: Barbara E. Thornbury; title: 14. Kabuki: Signs, Symbols, and the Hieroglyphic Actor; title: Leonard C. Pronko; title: 15. The Tsurane of Shibaraku: Communicating the Power of Identity; title: Katherine Saltzman-Li; title: 16. Conjuring Kuzunoha from the World of Abe no Seimei; title: Janet E. Goff; title: 17. Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry: A Japanese Puppet Play and Its Metamorphosis to Kabuki; title: Stanleigh H. Jones Jr.; title: 18. Kabuki and the Elizabethan Theatre; title: Leonard C. Pronko; title: Part 3. Surveying the Field; title: 19. Kabuki: Changes and Prospects: An International Symposium; title: James R. Brandon; title: 20. Kabuki as National Culture: A Critical Survey of Japanese Kabuki Scholarship; title: William Lee; title: Selected Bibliography; title: About the Editor and Contributors; title: Index.