A kabuki reader : history and performance / Samuel L. Leiter, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leiter, Samuel L.

Series:

Japan in the modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kabuki--History.

Kabuki.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2002]

Summary:

This is a groundbreaking economic analysis of entrepreneurship and the development process for innovation. The author strives to distinguish the role of the capitalist from that of an entrepreneur, and to show how the actions of the entrepreneur impact new employment, economic growth, and advancements in the overall standard of living.

The book provides in-depth discussion of several critical concepts: the economic development of a product; Schumpeter's "temporary monopoly control"; the economic bounds of product and process innovations; and changing production functions. It also develops and integrates an analysis of how innovation-induced modifications in either products or processes affect both short-ran and long-ran average costs in production. As a special feature, each chapter includes an interview with a successful entrepreneur, and suggested readings are also provided.

Contents:

Performing arts of sixteenth-century Japan : a prelude to kabuki / Andrew T. Tsubaki

Origins of kabuki acting in medieval Japanese drama / Laurence R. Kominz

Bakufu versus kabuki / Donald H. Shively

Nakamura Shichisaburō I and the creation of Edo-style wagoto / Holly A. Blumner

Episodes in the career of the kabuki actor Nakamura Utaemon III, including his rivalry with Arashi Rikan I / Charles J. Dunn

Flowers of Edo : eighteenth-century kabuki and its patrons / C. Andrew Gerstle

Hiiki Renchū (theatre of fan clubs) in Osaka in the early nineteenth century / Susumu Matsudaira

Kabuki goes official : the 1878 opening of the Shintomi-za / Yuichirō Takahashi

Breaking the kabuki actors' barriers : 1868-1900 / Faith Bach

Communist kabuki : a contradiction in terms? / Brian Powell

New (neo) kabuki and the work of Hanagumi Shibai / Natsuko Inoue

From gay to gei : the onnagata and the creation of kabuki's female characters / Samuel L. Leiter

Actor, role, and character : their multiple interrelationships in kabuki / Barbara E. Thornbury

Kabuki : signs, symbols, and the hieroglyphic actor / Leonard C. Pronko

Tsurane of Shibaraku : communicating the power of identity / Katherine Saltzman-Li

Conjuring kuzunoha from the world of Abe no Seimei / Janet E. Goff

Miracle at Yaguchi Ferry : a Japanese puppet play and its metamorphosis to kabuki / Stanleigh H. Jones Jr.

Kabuki and the Elizabethan theatre / Leonard C. Pronko

Kabuki : changes and prospects : an international symposium / James R. Brandon

Kabuki as national culture : a critical survey of Japanese kabuki scholarship / William Lee.

Notes:

"An east gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-398) and index.

ISBN:

0765607042

0765607050

OCLC:

45890413