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Danjūrō's girls : women on the kabuki stage
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- Creator
- Loren Edelson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0230609465, 9780230609464
- OCLC
- ocn226357072
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-251) and index.
- Prologue. Danjuro's girls -- 1. Danjuro IX and the actress question -- 2. The formation of the Ichikawa Girls' Kabuki Troupe -- 3. Name recognition -- 4. Cypress stages -- 5. Acting like men -- 6. The critics respond -- 7. Life offstage -- 8. Power struggle -- 9. The final years -- Epilogue. Kabuki as invented tradition -- App. Play titles in translation