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Creating kabuki plays : context for Kezairoku, "Valuable notes on playwriting" /

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 auth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saltzman-Li, Katherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004193208
9004193200
1282949020
9781282949027
9786612949029
6612949023