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Title:

Transvestism and the onnagata traditions in Shakespeare and Kabuki / edited by Minoru Fujita and Michael Shapiro.

Publisher:

Global Oriental,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xiv, 213 p., [12] p. of plates. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Women.--Women.
Kabuki--Japan.
Theater--History.--Japan--History.
Transvestism--Japan.
Theater--History.--England--History.
Feminism and theater.
Sex role in literature.

Other Authors:

Fujita, Minoru, 1933-
Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781901903317
1901903311

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71808965

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)