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Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3

Kabuki Plays On Stage. Volume 3

Pubblicato da University of Hawaii Press

English 413 pagine 2002 ISBN 9780824844752
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<p><i>Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864,</i> 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.<br><br>The fourteen plays translated in Volume 3, <i>Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864,</i> 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.</p>
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