Kabuki - Five Classic Plays (Paperback, New edition)

While its actors made their entrance down the Flower Way over three hundred years ago, little of kabuki's repertory has been available to English readers. Not only are adequate translations difficult to produce, but also because the spoken parts of the drama constitute but a portion of that grand spectacle, English renderings often have an elliptical quality.These five plays, however, were translated from tapes made by James Brandon at actual performances, imparting to them an unusual immediacy. The superb translations are further enhanced by detailed commentary and stage directions that reflect music and sound effects as well as positions of actors on stage and their stylized gestures and posturing, all of which are such a vital part of a live performance. A concise introduction includes the history of kabuki, its religious background and ties with prostitution, its themes and playwriting systems, and its performance conventions, actors, music, and dance. Appendixes provide a fascinating focus on various sound effects and music cues in performance. More than one hundred production photographs vividly convey the action and emotion of one of the world's greatest stage arts. First published in 1975, this volume remains a classic. A reprint to the 1975 edition. Accepted into the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Japanese Series.

General

Imprint:	University of Hawaii Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 1992
First published:	November 1992
Authors:	James R. Brandon
Dimensions:	237 x 157 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	394
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8248-1426-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8248-1426-6
Barcode:	9780824814267

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