Title Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century : Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context / Akihiro Odanaka and Masami Iwai

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps (black and white) Series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies. Summary Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language but also cultural barriers of this work. In this book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays underrepresented in English through rexamining their siginifcance on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of the audience's expectation that could not have materialized outside the theatre. Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century aims to make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the political and cultural implications of this revered theatre tradition Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Akihiro Odanaka is Professor of Cultural Resources at the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences of Osaka City University, Japan. His research covers a wide range of research fields, such as modern French theatre, the history of Western theatre, comparative theatre between Western and Japanese works, and the study of culture and representation. He is the author of the award-winning book The Layers of Modern Theatre (Gendai engeki no chisō), which was awarded the 43rd Kawatake prize from the Japanese Society for Theatre Research. Masami Iwai has been Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Meijo University (Nagoya City), Japan, since 2016. He specializes in a historiography of Japanese traditional theatre from the 17th to the 20th centuries concerning kabuki, bunraku, and other performing arts. Besides his encyclopedic knowledge of Japanese theatre, he has been interested in contemporary British theatre and has translated three plays by Patrick Marber into Japanese: Dealer's Choice, Closer, and Howard Katz. Since 2010, he has been working on a joint research project with Dr. Odanaka Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2020) Subject Bunraku -- Japan -- History -- 18th century Bunraku -- History -- 18th century ART -- Asian. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Bunraku Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Iwai, Masami, author ISBN 9780429622151 0429622155 9780429054761 0429054769 9780429620003 0429620004 9780429617850 0429617852

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