Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century : Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context PDF
by Akihiro Odanaka, Masami Iwai
Part of the Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies series
Description
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 Iwaitackle 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.
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:16/07/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780429622151
