LEADER 02898oam 2200649I 450 001 9910808023203321 005 20240402015914.0 010 $a1-138-97371-8 010 $a1-315-07320-X 010 $a1-134-24201-8 010 $a1-134-24194-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315073200 035 $a(CKB)2550000001189799 035 $a(EBL)1581985 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001161330 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11682740 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001161330 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11131566 035 $a(PQKB)10554488 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1581985 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1581985 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10823937 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL568727 035 $a(OCoLC)866447335 035 $a(OCoLC)868084854 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB131129 035 $a(PPN)184447178 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001189799 100 $a20180331e20132002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJapan's modern theatre $ea century of change and continuity /$fBrian Powell 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2002 by Japan Library. 311 $a1-873410-30-1 311 $a1-306-37476-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Setting; Chapter 1 Kabuki and the Challenges of a Changing Theatre World; Chapter 2 New Acting, New Production, Some New Playwriting; Chapter 3 Artists, Ideologues and Ideological Artists; Chapter 4 Diversity in Adversity; Chapter 5 Theatre Mobilised; Chapter 6 Consolidation; Chapter 7 One Tradition Promoted, One Challenged and One Created; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis book endeavours to unravel the complicated skeins of Japanese theatre in the modern period and offers an appreciation of the richness of choice of presentational and representational theatre forms.Since the end of world War II there has been continuing but different conflict between the major theatrical genres. Kabuki continues to defend its ground successfully, but the 'new drama' (shingeki) became firmly established in its own right in the 1960s. It was a vigorous and exuberant 'underground' theatre which exploited anything and everything in the Japanese and western theatre traditio 606 $aTheater$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTheater$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792/.0952 700 $aPowell$b Brian$f1939,$01701721 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808023203321 996 $aJapan's modern theatre$94085684 997 $aUNINA