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Author Saltzman-Li, Katherine

Title Creating kabuki plays : context for Kezairoku, "Valuable notes on playwriting" / by Katherine Saltzman-Li
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 13
Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 13.
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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Subject Kabuki plays -- History and criticism
Kabuki plays -- Technique
Playwriting.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Kabuki plays
Playwriting
Kabuki.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010002836
ISBN 9789004193208
9004193200
1282949020
9781282949027
9786612949029
6612949023