A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance: History and Performance

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Preface
Introduction
Kabuki History
The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki
Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama
Bakufu versus Kabuki
Nakamura Shichisaburo I and the Creation of Edo-Style Wagoto
Episodes in the Career of the Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III, Including his Rivalry with Arashi Rikan I
Flowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and its Patrons
Hiiki Renchu (Theatre Fan Clubs) in Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century
Kabuki Goes Official: The 1878 Opening of the Shintomiza
Breaking the Kabuki Actors' Barriers: 1868-1900
Communist Kabuki:A Contradiction in Terms?
New (Neo) Kabukiand the Work of Hanagumi Shibai
Kabuki Performance
From Gay to Gei, The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters
Actor, Role, and Character: Their Multiple Interrelationships in Kabuki
Kabuki:Signs, Symbols, and the Hieroglyphic Actor
The Tsurane of Shibaraku: Communicating the Power of Identity
Conjuring Kuzunoha from the World of Abe no Seimei
Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry: A Japanese Puppet Play and Its Metamorphosis to Kabuki
Kabukiand the Elizabethan Theatre
Surveying the Field
Kabuki:Changes and Prospects: An International Symposium
Kabuki as National Culture: A Critical Survey of Japanese Kabuki Scholarship
Selected Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
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