A kabuki reader : history and performance by Leiter, Samuel L instant download

A kabuki reader : history and performance by Leiter, Samuel L instant download

xxxii, 430 p. : 24 cm, \"An east gate book.\", Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-398) and index, Machine generated contents note: Part 1. Kabuki History -- 1. The Performing Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan: A Prelude to Kabuki -- Andrew T. Tsubaki -- 2. Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama -- Laurence R. Kominz -- 3. Bakufu Versus Kabuki -- Donald H. Shively -- 4. Nakamura Shichisaburo I and the Creation of Edo-Style Wagoto -- Holly A. Blumner -- 5. Episodes in the Career of the Kabuki Actor Nakamura Utaemon III, Including His Rivalry with Arashi Rikan I -- Charles J. Dunn -- 6. Flowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and Its Patrons -- C. Andrew Gerstle -- 7. Hiiki Renchu (Theatre Fan Clubs) in Osaka in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Susumu Matsudaira -- 8. Kabuki Goes Official: The 1878 Opening of the Shintomi-za -- Yuichiro Takahashi -- 9. Breaking the Kabuki Actors' Barriers: 1868-1900 -- Faith Bach -- 10. Communist Kabuki: A Contradiction in Terms? -- Brian Powell -- 11. New (Neo) Kabuki and the Work of Hanagumi Shibai -- Natsuko Inoue -- Part 2. Kabuki Performance -- 12. From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters -- Samuel L. Leiter -- 13. Actor, Role, and Character: Their Multiple Interrelationships in Kabuki -- Barbara E. Thornbury -- 14. Kabuki: Signs, Symbols, and the Hieroglyphic Actor -- Leonard C. Pronko -- 15. The Tsurane of Shibaraku: Communicating the Power of Identity -- Katherine Saltzman-Li -- 16. Conjuring Kuzunoha from the World of Abe no Seimei -- Janet E. Goff -- 17. Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry: A Japanese Puppet Play and Its Metamorphosis to Kabuki -- Stanleigh H. Jones Jr. -- 18. Kabuki and the Elizabethan Theatre -- Leonard C. Pronko -- Part 3. Surveying the Field -- 19. Kabuki: Changes and Prospects: An International Symposium -- James R. Brandon -- 20. Kabuki as National Culture: A Critical Survey of Japanese Kabuki Scholarship -- William Lee -- Selected Bibliography -- About the