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Kabuki Plays on Stage v. 3; Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, Hardback Book

Kabuki Plays on Stage v. 3; Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864 Hardback

Edited by James R. Brandon, Samuel L. Leiter

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Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, is the third volume in a monumental new series - the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in nearly a quarter of a century.

Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era.

The fourteen plays translated in Volume 3, Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, mark an extreme point in the development of kabuki dramaturgy.

The plays are remarkable, even within kabuki, for their intense theatricality, gutsy individualism of character, cold-blooded and ferocious violence, realism pushed into fantasy and grotesquery, novelty for its own sake, sexual aggressiveness, and assertion of female will.

The plays depict a society in extremis, the end of an era, a time often marked by unmitigated darkness and desire.

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