A collection of fifteen essays written over nearly four decades by one of America's best-known scholars of Japan's kabuki theatre. Illustrated with numerous photographs, prints, and line drawings, it includes an overview of kabuki and its impact on world theatre, interviews with and biographical accounts of famous actors, discussions of kabuki acting and staging techniques, an examination of kabuki violence, accounts of English-language kabuki productions, studies of theatrical architecture, a survey of amateur kabuki in rural communities, and a comparison of kabuki with the eighteenth-century English theatre. Each essay has been revised, some considerably, and two previously unpublished essays have been provided.
- ISBN10 1885445415
- ISBN13 9781885445414
- Publish Date 31 March 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Imprint Cornell University East Asia Program
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 380
- Language English