Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century: Bunraku Puppet Plays in Social Context

by Masami Iwai and Akihiro Odanaka

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language but also cultural barriers of this work.

In this book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays underrepresented in English through rexamining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036715062X
• ISBN13: 9780367150624
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages