Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864

by Samuel L. Leiter

Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, is the third volume in a monumental new series-the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in nearly a quarter of a century. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era.

The fourteen plays translated in Volume 3, Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, mark an extreme point in the development of kabuki dramaturgy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824555
• ISBN13: 9780824824556
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 2.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 10.1"