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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Contex

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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Contex
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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Contex

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(Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) 1st Edition 

by Akihiro Odanaka (Author), Masami Iwai (Author) 

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 Iwai tackle 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.

Year:
2021
Pages:
247
Language:
English
Format:
PDF
Size:
41 MB
ISBN-10:
0367516772, 036715062X
ISBN-13:
978-0367516772, 978-0367150624
ASIN:
B08BX6Q6P2
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