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Genre/Form: | Wörterbuch |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
河竹登志夫, 1924- Kawatake Toshio ; translated by Frank & Jean Connell Hoff. ; Toshio Kawatake; Frank Hoff; Jean Hoff; Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan) |
ISBN: | 4903452018 9784903452012 |
OCLC Number: | 318200161 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Japanese. |
Description: | xxx, 358 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | An unexpected overseas response -- Drama that transcends national barriers -- From a comparative perspective -- Unique theatre machinery -- Theatricality, audience involvement and Hanamichi -- The Hanamichi: its etymology and evolution -- The dynamism of the revolving stage -- The commoner's realm of pleasure -- A "fusion of the arts" -- The artistry of sound -- The sense of visual beauty -- Yakusha, Yakugara and Onnagata -- Gei, Kata and their transmission -- The creation of "negative beauty" -- Kabuki and the puppet theatre -- The tragedy of "parting from loved ones and the anguish of separation" -- Tragedies of implicit understanding and acquiescence -- Kizewamono: living for the moment -- The baroque theatre of Japan -- Its place in the history of world theatre -- From the nineteenth century into the twenty-first. |
Series Title: | LTCB international library selection, no. 13. |
Other Titles: | Kabuki. Baroque fusion of the arts |
Responsibility: | Kawatake Toshio ; translated by Frank & Jean Connell Hoff. |
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