Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance

Language and theater scholars from the US, Japan, Australia--some working in each other's country--examine shigeki theater in Japan over the past two centuries, since the isolation of the Tokugawa shogunate. They cover its history, experimental theater and border crossings, specific plays and productions, and the super-kyogen script Mutsugoro (Mudskippers). This is a paperbound reprint of a 2006 book. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)