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The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan : Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the 18th and 19th Centuries /

The plays presented here were first performed between 1769 and 1832, a time when the Japanese puppet theatre known as Bunraku was beginning to lose its pre-eminence to Kabuki. During this period, however, several important puppet plays were created that went on to become standards in both the Bunrak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Chikamatsu, Tokuzō, 1751 or 1752-1810, Chikamatsu, Hanji, -1786 or 1787, Jones, Stanleigh H., Jr (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario:The plays presented here were first performed between 1769 and 1832, a time when the Japanese puppet theatre known as Bunraku was beginning to lose its pre-eminence to Kabuki. During this period, however, several important puppet plays were created that went on to become standards in both the Bunraku and Kabuki repertoires; three of the plays in this volume achieved this level of importance.
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations, map
ISBN:9780824837259