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      Meiji Kabuki: Japanese Theater through Foreign Eyes

      Samuel L. Leiter

      This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using…

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      A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance

      Samuel L. Leiter

      A comprehensive survey of the history of kabuki - how it is written, produced, staged and performed, and its place in world theatre. The volume includes one kabuki play in…

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      Kabuki at the Crossroads: Years of Crisis, 1952-1965

      Samuel L. Leiter

      Samuel L. Leiter’s Kabuki at the Crossroads is a thorough account of Japan’s most famous traditional theatre as it struggled to survive in the maelstrom of post-Occupation Japan’s rapidly changing…

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      Brooklyn Takes the Stage

      Samuel L. Leiter

      This first comprehensive study of Brooklyn's old-time theatre describes the city's early history, each of its many playhouses, its plays and actors (including nearly every foreign and domestic star), and…

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      Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre

      Samuel L. Leiter

      This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to: *a chronology; *introductory essay; *appendixes; *an extensive bibliography; *over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important…

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      Frozen Moments: Writings on Kabuki, 1966-2001

      Samuel L. Leiter

      A collection of fifteen essays written over nearly four decades by one of America’s best-known scholars of Japan’s kabuki theatre. Illustrated with numerous photographs, prints, and line drawings, it includes…

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      A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance

      Samuel L. Leiter

      A comprehensive survey of the history of kabuki - how it is written, produced, staged and performed, and its place in world theatre. The volume includes one kabuki play in…

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      The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan

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      After World War II, American occupation forces undertook to enforce censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers used his…

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      Zeami and the No Theatre in the World

      This volume contains the proceedings of the Zeami and the No Theatre in the World symposium.

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      The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan

      Okamoto Shiro

      After World War II, American occupation forces undertook to enforce censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers used his…

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      Kabuki Plays on Stage v. 3; Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864

      The 14 plays translated here mark an extreme point in the development of kabuki dramaturgy. The plays are remarkable for their intense theatricality, gutsy individualism of character, cold-blooded and ferocious…

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      Kabuki Plays on Stage v. 4; Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905

      The fourth and final volume in a series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The 12 plays translated in this volume cover the remarkable…

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      Masterpieces of Kabuki eighteen plays on stage: Eighteen Plays on Stage

      This title contains 18 dramas taken from the four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage . Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period…

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      Kabuki Plays on Stage Vol 1; Brilliance and Bravado, 1700-1770

      James R. Brandon

      A collection of Kabuki play translations which trace Kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction that contextualizes the play.

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      Kabuki Plays on Stage Vol 2; Villany and Vengeance, 1770-1800

      James R. Brandon

      A collection of Kabuki play translations which trace Kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction that contextualizes the play.

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      Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

      This is the first book to describe the way in which the traditional and modern forms of Japanese theater responded to Japan’s defeat in World War II. It includes sixteen…

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      Health and Health Care as Social Problems

      This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems.

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      Health and Health Care as Social Problems

      This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems.

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