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Traditional Japanese Theater

Traditional Japanese Theater
Author: Karen Brazell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780231108737

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The first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume.


A History of Japanese Theatre

A History of Japanese Theatre
Author: Jonah Salz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1066
Release: 2016-07-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1316395324

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Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo storytelling, vanguard butoh dance and media experimentation. The first part addresses traditional genres, their historical trajectories and performance conventions. Part II covers the spectrum of new genres since Meiji (1868–), and Parts III to VI provide discussions of playwriting, architecture, Shakespeare, and interculturalism, situating Japanese elements within their global theatrical context. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and prints, this history features interviews with key modern directors, an overview of historical scholarship in English and Japanese, and a timeline. A further reading list covers a range of multimedia resources to encourage further explorations.


Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance

Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance
Author: David Jortner
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780739123003

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Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance is a collection of sixteen essays on Japanese theatre, including historical overviews of twentieth century theatre, analyses of specific productions and individuals, and consideration of the intercultural nature of modern Japanese theatre. Also included is a new translation of a 'Superkyogen' play.


Japanese Theatre

Japanese Theatre
Author: Faubion Bowers
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1462912184

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Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan. Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song – dance – skill." The precursors of Kabuki were the puppet theater and the comic interludes in the stately, aristocratic Noh drama – all fully described by the author. In the modem era the Japanese have broken away from Kabuki, and their stage has shown a realistic trend. Left–wing theater groups arose in the 1920’s, were suppressed by the militarists, and then revived during the occupation. Appended to the historical chapters are Mr. Bowers's translations of three Kabuki plays: The Monstrous Spider, Gappo and His Daughter Tsuji, and the bombastic Sukeroku. This book, with its many excellent photographs, is a permanent addition to the West's knowledge of the exotic, exciting theater of Japan and its tradition of great acting.


The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan

The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan
Author: Ernest Fenollosa
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1959
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780811201520

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The Noh plays of Japan have been compared to the greatest of Greek tragedies for their evocative, powerful poetry and splendor of emotional intensity.


The Kabuki Theatre

The Kabuki Theatre
Author: Earle Ernst
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0824846060

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The Japanese Theatre

The Japanese Theatre
Author: Benito Ortolani
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1995
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780691043333

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From ancient ritualistic practices to modern dance theatre, this study provides concise summaries of all major theatrical art forms in Japan. It situates each genre in its particular social and cultural contexts, describing in detail staging, costumes, repertory and noteworthy actors.


Japanese Theatre and the International Stage

Japanese Theatre and the International Stage
Author: Stanca Scholz-Cionca
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-08-04
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9004483055

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This well-illustrated work is the first attempt to bridge the gap between several specialized discourses concerning Japanese theatre. Central are problems of scholarly and practical reception of Japanese theatre forms in the West. The essays by a careful selection of internationally well-reputed scholars range widely through Japanese theatre, from the ancient to the postmodern, or, one might say, from kagura to angura. It deals with reception of Japanese theatre in the West, the treatment of the body in stage art and drama, Western influence, the impact of Japanese theatre practice and theory upon the actor’s training, and stage directing in the West. Readers will come across a wide variety of intriguing topics, such as lion dances, kabuki, nôh, folk theatre, taishu engeki, and several important modern playwrights, etc. This book truly promises to intensify future dialogue between the many disciplines concerned with Japanese theatre.


The Japanese Theatre

The Japanese Theatre
Author: Ortolani
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2022-07-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004484140

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An up-to-date cultural history of the Japanese theatre in all its forms including primitive rituals, court and popular dance-drama, puppet shows and westernized plays, is narrated here for the first time in English by a western authority in the field. The book underlines Zeami and Zenchiku's secret tradition of the nō, explaining Zen-inspired spiritual teachings for the actor's training on the way to enlightened performance. It also gives relevance to the transformation of an anti-establishment entertainment by prostitutes into spectacular kabuki stagecraft, and to the modernization process which created shingeki modern drama, and moved it into the context of world theatre. The final chapter summarizes the history of western discovery of the Japanese stage. The illustrations, the indexes, the glossary and the extensive bibliography — including all major literature in western languages until 1989 — also contribute to make this volume a must for all students of the Japanese theatre, and for anyone interested in a better understanding of Japanese culture as mirrored in its theatrical component.


Japanese Theatre in Highlight

Japanese Theatre in Highlight
Author: Francis Haar
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1462913113

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Words cannot explain to an outsider the sight and feel of the Japanese stage. And definitions and descriptions do not convey an exact image to people brought up on a concept of the theatre that differs so greatly from the Japanese as ours. In seeing something foreign, too, our eyes must be guided carefully, so that we know what we are seeing and how to look at it profitably. All of us are to be grateful for this book, because now, without leaving our countries, or for that matter our armchairs, we can peer at leisure into expertly selected, edited and glossed highlights of the three great classical theatre arts of Japan-Noh, Bunraku and Kabuki. The Fifty-four ensuing photographs, with their textual commentary, are the equivalent, in my mind, of fifty-four choice seats at some of the best performances in modern Japan and intimate visits backstage.