Samuel L. Leiter

Meiji Kabuki

Japanese Theatre through Foreign Eyes

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan's kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all signif...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 858g
• ISBN-13: 9781666926781
• ISBN-10: 1666926787
• Artikelnr.: 65695811

Autorenporträt

Samuel L. Leiter, distinguished professor (emeritus) of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, has published thirty books on Japanese theatre, the great stage directors, New York theatre history, and Shakespeare.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Part I: Overview
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Brief Survey of Meiji Kabuki
Part II: The 1860s
Chapter 3: From Japan through American Eyes (1859; 1860), by Francis Hall
Chapter 4: From Ten Weeks in Japan: "Japanese Drama" (1860), by Rev. George
Smith
Chapter 5: From Japan through American Eyes (1861; 1862), by Francis Hall
Chapter 6: From the Capital of the Tycoon: "Osaca" (1862), by Si Rutherford
Alcock
Chapter 7: From A Lady's Visit to Manila and Japan (1862) by Anna D'Almeida
Chapter 8: "Japanese Theaters" (1864), by Humbert Aimé
Chapter 9: From A Diplomat in Japan (1866?), by Sir Ernest Satow
Chapter 10: More from the 1860s, by Jacob Mortimer Silver, R. Mountenney
Jephson, and Edward Pennell Elmhirst
Part III: 1870s
Chapter 11: From Japanese Episodes: "A Day in a Japanese Theatre" (1872),
by Edward H. House
Chapter 12: From Clara's Diary: "Kabuki-the Japanese Theater" (1876), by
Clara A.N. Whitney
Chapter 13: From Japan Day by Day: "The Theatre" (1877, 1878), by Edward S.
Morse
Chapter 14: "Theatricals" (1878), by Isabella L. Bird
Chapter 15: From Clara's Diary: Part I: "Ch¿shingura" (1878), by Clara A.N.
Whitney
Chapter 16: From Awakening Japan (1879), by Erwin Baelz
Chapter 17: From Clara's Diary (1879): "Entertaining General Grant"; "A
Western Style Drama", by Clara A.N. Whitney
Chapter 18: More from the 1870s, by William Elliot Griffis, Christopher
Dresser, Arthur Collins Maclay, William Gray Dixon, Charles H. Eden, and
Mrs. Julia D. Carrothers
Part IV: The 1880s
Chapter 19: From Japan Day by Day: "The Theatre" (1882), by Edward S. Morse
Chapter 20: From Jinrikisha Days in Japan: "Japanese Theatre" (1889), by
Eliza Rumaha Scidmore
Chapter 21: From A Japanese Interior (1889), by Alice Mabel Bacon
Chapter 22: More from the 1880s, by Thomas W. Knox, Arthur H. Crow, Andrew
Carnegie, William Henry Lucy, Henry Knollys, Henry Fauld
Part V: The 1890s
Chapter 23: From A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan: "Danjuro, a Great Actor"
(1890), by Mary Crawford Fraser
Chapter 24: From The Japs at Home (1892), by Douglas Sladen
Chapter 25: From Lotos-Time in Japan (1894), by Henry T. Finck
Chapter 26: From Japan: A Record in Colour (1896): "Art and the Drama," by
Mortimer Menpes
Chapter 27: "Japan's Stage and Greatest Actor" (1896), by Robert P. Porter
Chapter 28: From Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1898): "Popular Plays";
"Afternoon Calls," by Osman Edwards
Chapter 29: More from the 1890s, by Adolfo Farsari, M.B. Cook, G.J.
Younghusband, Mae St. John Bramhall, Katherine Schuyler Baxter, William
Eleroy Curtis, S.C.F. Jackson, Stafford Ransome
Part VI: The 1900s
Chapter 30: From Tales from Tokio: "Shibaya to Yakusha" (1900), by Clarence
Ludlow Brownell
Chapter 31: From Awakening Japan (1903), by Erwin Baelz
Chapter 32: From Present-Day Japan: "The Drama" (1904), by Augusta M.
Campbell Davidson
Chapter 33: From Things Japanese: "Theatre" (1904), by Basil Hall
Chamberlain
Chapter 34: From Rare Days in Japan: "At the Theatre" (1906), by George
Trumbull Ladd
Chapter 35: From Smiling 'Round the World: "Visit to a Japanese Theatre,
Tokyo" (1908), by Marshall P. Wilder
Chapter 36: From Every-Day Japan: "The Japanese Stage" (1909), by Arthur
Lloyd
Chapter 37: From Japan and the Japanese (1910), by Walter Tyndale
Chapter 38: From The Full Recognition of Japan (1911), by Robert P. Porter
Chapter 39: From Japan of the Japanese, by Joseph H. Longford
Chapter 40: More from the 1900s (and Beyond), by Anna C. Hartshorne, Fred
Gaisberg, Douglas Sladen, Walter Del Mar, George H. Rittner, Ernest W.
Clement, W. Petrie Watson, Eleanora Mary D'Anethan, Clive Holland,
Anonymous, Evelyn Adam, and A.H. Exner
Glossary
Bibliography
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