Creating Kabuki Plays

Context for Kezairoku, Valuable Notes on Playwriting
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-12115-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. 'Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô' (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of Kabuki playwriting.
At the hand of this vital text, the author addresses the history, methodology, and practitioners of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867.) The reader will find a critical examination of 'Kezairoku', and discussions regarding the connections between the Kabuki and literary worlds of Edo Japan, and between playwriting and the oral arts.
The availability of the entire 'Kezairoku' in English, together with a full contextualization of its teachings and meanings, offers a volume of great significance to both Japan and theatre scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saltzman-Li, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Saltzman-Li, Ph.D. (1994) in Asian Languages, Stanford University, is Associate Professor in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara.