KABUKI: Five Classic Plays & THE KABUKI THEATRE - $20 in Belleville, Ontario for sale

KABUKI: Five Classic Plays & THE KABUKI THEATRE

KABUKI: Five Classic Plays
Author: James R. Brandon
Binding: Hardcover W/Dust Jacket
Publisher: Harvard University Press; 1975
ISBN-10: 0674304853
Condition: This book is in very good condition. The contents are clean and unmarked. Owner name on first blank page. The dust jacket is in good condition with shelf wear and rough edges.
Price: $10.00

These five plays, translated from tapes made by AMr. Brandon at actual performances, represent basic dramatic types and performance styles. Mixing historical or legendary events with scenes from everyday life, their plots are based on intrigue, love, and the struggle for power. With stylized gestures and colorful costumes and makeup, their actors express violent emotions and sensuality. Courtly dialogue is interspersed with bawdy humor; choruses sing, moons rise, heads fall, and battles are won in kabuki's brilliant bravura world.

THE KABUKI THEATRE by Earle E. Ernst
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; 1974
ISBN-10: 0824803191
Condition: This book is in very good condition. The contents are clean and unmarked.
Price: $20.00

Ernst shows us the theatre from the inside, with deep understanding of its meaning and purpose. This book explains everything lucidly and painstakingly - the background, the facts, the emotions, both from a Japanese and a Western point of view. If you can keep paying attention you will find at the end that you seem to have been living in Japan for quite a while.

Earle Ernst is professor emeritus of theatre at the University of Hawaii. He has an A.B. degree from Gettysburg College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University.