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Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3

Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3

Published by University of Hawaii Press

English 413 pages 2002 ISBN 9780824844752
Estimated reading time: 7 h 34 min
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About this book

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.

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Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3 is available as PDF at 13 online bookshops. Bookshops carrying it include Association of University Presses - Tienda FILUNI, Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam.

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Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3 is available as PDF at 13 online bookshops.
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At an average reading pace, Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3 takes about 7 h 34 min to read (413 pages).

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