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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context (ISSN) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Akihiro Odanaka (Author), Masami Iwai (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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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  1. ISBN-13
    978-0367150624
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    July 16, 2020
  6. Part of series
    Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
  7. Language
    English
  8. File size
    6301 KB
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About the Author

Akihiro Odanaka is Professor of Cultural Resources at the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences of Osaka City University, Japan. His research covers a wide range of research fields, such as modern French theatre, the history of Western theatre, comparative theatre between Western and Japanese works, and the study of culture and representation. He is the author of the award-winning book The Layers of Modern Theatre (Gendai engeki no chisō), which was awarded the 43rd Kawatake prize from the Japanese Society for Theatre Research.

Masami Iwai has been Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Meijo University (Nagoya City), Japan, since 2016. He specializes is a historiography of Japanese traditional theatre from the 17th to the 20th centuries concerning kabuki, bunraku, and other performing arts. Besides his encyclopedic knowledge of Japanese theatre, he has been interested in contemporary British theatre and has translated three plays by Patrick Marber into Japanese: Dealer's Choice, Closer, and Howard Katz. Since 2010, he has been working on a joint research project with Dr. Odanaka.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BX6Q6P2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (July 16, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 16, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6301 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0367516772
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