Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864

414 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780824824556
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2002
• Größe: 257 x 188 mm
• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Herausgegeben von: James R Brandon, Samuel L Leiter