Abstract
The West enthuses over Japanese classical theatre. Nō, kabuki and the bunraku puppet theatre are well known outside Japan. Many in the United States and Europe especially, but also in many other parts of the world, can talk about the great classics of the kabuki theatre on the basis of having watched live performances of them. There have even been opportunities for students of drama and professional actors to attend workshops given in their own countries by peripatetic kabuki actors.
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See especially D. Goodman (trans.), After Apocalypse: Four Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1986 );
Kinoshita Junji (trs. E. Gangloff), Between God and Man (Tokyo University Press, 1979 );
Kubo Sakae (trs. D. Goodman), Land of Volcanic Ash ( Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986 );
T. Takaya (trans.), Modern Japanese Drama: An Anthology ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1979 ).
See B. Powell, ‘Japan’s first modern theatre, Tsukiji Shōgekijō and its company, 1924–26’, Monumenta Nipponica, xxx.1 (Spring 1975 ) 69–85.
Translated by Kenneth Strong as Footprints in the Snow (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1970).
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Powell, B. (1990). Introduction. In: Kabuki in Modern Japan. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20945-3_1
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