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Author Shimazaki, Satoko, author.

Title Edo kabuki in transition : from the worlds of the samurai to the vengeful female ghost / Satoko Shimazaki.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 372 pages): illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Kabuki -- History -- 19th century.
Kabuki.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Japanese drama -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1600-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Kabuki.
Other Form: Print version: 9780231172264 0231172265 (DLC) 2015027593 (OCoLC)919202260
ISBN 9780231540520 (electronic book)
0231540523 (electronic book)
9780231172264
0231172265