Edo kabuki in transition : from the worlds of the samurai to the vengeful female ghost /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shimazaki, Satoko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The birth of Edo kabuki
  • Presenting the past: Edo kabuki and the creation of community
  • The beginning of the end of Edo kabuki: Yotsuya Kaidan in 1825
  • Overturning the world: the treasury of loyal retainers and Yotsuya Kaidan
  • Shades of jealousy: the body of the female ghost
  • The end of the world: figures of the ubume and the breakdown of theater tradition
  • The modern rebirth of kabuki
  • Another history: Yotsuya Kaidan on stage and page.