Description |
1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 13 |
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Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 13.
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Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Playmaking and Playwriting: Early Play Creation for Kabuki; II. An Ordered System: The Later Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; III. Kezairoku: Legitimacy and Methodology for the "Way" of the Playwright; IV. Kabuki Playwriting: The Literary Connection; V. Kabuki Playwriting: The Oral Connection; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
This volume makes available in English a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. "Kezairoku, Sakusha no Shikih" (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights' Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of Kabuki playwriting. The author addresses the history, methodology, and practitioners of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867). The reader will find a critical examination of Kezairoku, and discussions regarding the connections between the Kabuki and literary worlds of Edo Japan, and between playwriting and the oral arts |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Kabuki plays -- History and criticism
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Kabuki plays -- Technique
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Playwriting.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Kabuki plays
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Playwriting
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Kabuki.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2010002836 |
ISBN |
9789004193208 |
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9004193200 |
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1282949020 |
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9781282949027 |
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9786612949029 |
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6612949023 |
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