Kabuki plays on stage / edited by James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brandon, James R.

Leiter, Samuel L.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Kabuki plays--Translations into English.

Kabuki plays.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2002-

Summary:

Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, is the third volume in a monumental new series -- the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in nearly a quarter of a century. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era.

The fourteen plays translated in Volume 3, Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, mark an extreme point in the development of kabuki dramaturgy. The plays are remarkable, even within kabuki, for their intense theatricality, gutsy individualism of character, cold-blooded and ferocious violence, realism pushed into fantasy and grotesquery, novelty for its own sake, sexual aggressiveness, and assertion of female will. The plays depict a society in extremis, the end of an era, a time often marked by unmitigated darkness and desire.

Contents:

v. 1. Brilliance and bravado, 1697-1766

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824824032

082482413X

0824824555

0824825748

OCLC:

46952291