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Kabuki: The Popular Stage of Japan

by Zoë Kincaid

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  1. 1Acknowledgement
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Chapter I — Kabuki
  4. 4Chapter II — Kabuki Audiences
  5. 5Chapter III — Conventions of Kabuki
  6. 6Chapter IV — Craftsmanship of Kabuki
  7. 7Chapter V — Kabuki’s School of Acting
  8. 8Chapter VI — Actor Ceremonials
  9. 9Origin of Kabuki
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Onna Kabuki: The Woman’s Stage
  11. 11Chapter IX — Wakashu Kabuki: The Young Men’s Stage
  12. 12Chapter X — Theatres of the Three Towns
  13. 13Yakusha
  14. 14Chapter XII — Yakusha of Genroku
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Yakusha of Horeki
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Yakusha of Pre-Restoration Period
  17. 17Chapter XV — Onnagata
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Yakusha and Marionette
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Lives of the Yakusha
  20. 20Shibai
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Shibai and Outside Influence
  22. 22Chapter XX — Music of Shibai
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Shibai and Interference
  24. 24Chapter XXII — Externals of Shibai
  25. 25Sakusha
  26. 26Chapter XXIV — Representative Sakusha
  27. 27Plays
  28. 28Chapter XXVI — Motives of Kabuki Plays
  29. 29Chapter XXVII — Kabuki Rôles
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII — Meiji Kabuki
  31. 31Kabuki To-Day — Chapter XXIX — Contemporary Kabuki
  32. 32Bibliography

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