Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "video clips, photographs and nishiki-e prints from productions in each genre to illustrate how the plots are presented on stage."--Page 4 of cover
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "video clips, photographs and nishiki-e prints from productions in each genre to illustrate how the plots are presented on stage."--Page 4 of cover
"Spirits of Another Sort is a literary-critical study that traces the development of Kyoka's work from the melodramatic formulas of his early ideological fiction to the increasingly grotesque and fantastic permutations of the original pattern in his plays of the Taisho era. It i…
Following introductory essays on the development of Japanese drama between 1880 & 1939, this title offers translations of nine seminal one act plays by nine dramatists, including two women.
Following introductory essays on the development of Japanese drama between 1880 & 1939, this title offers translations of nine seminal one act plays by nine dramatists, including two women.
Introduction -- The birth of Edo kabuki -- Presenting the past: Edo kabuki and the creation of community -- The beginning of the end of Edo kabuki: Yotsuya Kaidan in 1825 -- Overturning the world: the treasury of loyal retainers and Yotsuya Kaidan -- Shades of jealousy: the body…