Kabuki

Kabuki Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • The Theatre Suspected
  • Kabuki
• Criticism: The Development Of Kabuki
  • Plays and Playwrights
  • Flowers of Edo: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki and Its Patrons
  • Origins of Kabuki Acting in Medieval Japanese Drama
• Criticism: Major Works
  • The Kabuki Juhachiban
  • The Theft of Chūshingura: or The Great Kabuki Caper
  • Ya no Ne: The Genesis of a Kabuki Aragoto Classic
• Criticism: Kabuki And Society
  • Bankufu Versus Kabuki
  • The Social Environment of Tokuawa Kabuki
  • Performing Marginality: The Place of the Player and of ‘Woman’ in Early Japanese Culture
  • From Gay to Gei: The Onnagata and the Creation of Kabuki's Female Characters
• Further Reading