xiv, 213 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates. : color illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBNs
1901903311, 9781901903317
OCLC
ocm71808965
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A note on the genesis of onnagata / Bunzō Torigoe -- Shakespeare and Kabuki / Yoseharu Ozaki -- Performing gender: the construction of femininity in Shakespeare and Kabuki / Ann Thompson -- The introduction of actresses in England: delay or defensiveness? . Michael Shapiro -- Figures of worship: responses to onnagata on the Kabuki stage in seventeenth-century Japanese vernacular prose / Paul G. Schalow -- Female-role specialization in Kabuki: how real is real? / Samuel Leiter -- The staging of a Kabuki version of Hamlet / Kojī Orita -- Sukeroku yukari no edo zakura: its text and performance / Izumi Kadono -- Onnagata in Kabuki and the London Globe Theatre / Minoru Fujita -- Shakespeare and Kabuki in Maurice Béjart: his King Lear: la mort de Cordelia / Yumiko Yamada -- Forum: gender in Shakespeare and Kabuki