A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance: History and Performance

, by Leiter,Samuel L.

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ISBN: 9780765607058 | 0765607050
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Copyright: 6/30/2001

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Preface

Introduction

xix

Samuel L. Leiter

Part 1. Kabuki History

The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki

(13)

Andrew T. Tsubaki

Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama

(17)

Laurence R. Kominz

Bakufu Versus Kabuki

(27)

Donald H. Shively

Nakamura Shichisaburo I and the Creation of Edo-Style Wagoto

(16)

Holly A. Blumner

Episodes in the Career of the Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III, Including His Rivalry with Arashi Rikan I

(36)

Charles J. Dunn

Flowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and Its Patrons

(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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A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance: History and Performance

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