01081nam a2200205Ia 4500 CTU_118529 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 8750 895.62008 K11/Vol.3 Kabuki plays on stage Edited by James R. Bradon, Samuel L. Leiter Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 2002 The fourteen plays translated in Volume 3, Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864, mark an extreme point in the development of kabuki dramaturgy. The plays are remarkable, even within kabuki, for their intense theatricality, gutsy individualism of character, cold-blooded and ferocious violence, realism pushed into fantasy and grotesquery, novelty for its own sake, sexual aggressiveness, and assertion of female will. The plays depict a society in extremis, the end of an era, a time often marked by unmitigated darkness and desire. Kabuki plays Translations into English Truc Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ