Kabuki

by James R. Brandon

Book Overview

While its actors made their entrace down the Flower Way over three hundred years ago, little of kabuki's repertory has been available to English readers. Not only are adequate translations difficult to produce, but also because the spoken parts of the drama constitute but a portion of that grand spectacle, English renderings often have an elliptical quality.These five plays, however, were translated from tapes made by James Brandon at actual performances,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824814266
• ISBN13: 9780824814267
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"