Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular
forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets
and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players.
However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not
only the language but also cultural barriers of this work. In this
book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays
underrepresented in English through rexamining their siginifcance
on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku
theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic
stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political
concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of
the audience's expectation that could not have materialized outside
the theatre. Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century aims to
make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the
political and cultural implications of this revered theatre
tradition.
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