著者・編者Akihiro Odanaka and Masami Iwai.
資料の内容に関する注記Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language but cultural barriers of this work. 0In this book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays underrepresnted in English through rexamining their siginifcance on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of the audience's expectation which could not have materialised outside the theatre. 'Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century' aims to make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the political and cultural implications of this revered theatre tradition.
書誌注記Includes bibliographical references and index.