Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780429620003
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780429054761, 9780367516772, 9780367516772, 9780367150624, 9780367150624
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 07/17/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Akihiro Odanaka, Masami Iwai
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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