Transvestism and the onnagata traditions in Shakespeare and Kabuki /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Fujita, Minoru, 1933-, Shapiro, Michael, 1938-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Folkestone, Kent, UK : Global Oriental, 2006.
Subjects:	Kabuki > Japan. Theater > Casting > Japan > History. Cross-dressing > Japan. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Women. Theater > Casting > England > History. Feminism and theater. Sex role in literature.

Table of Contents:

A note on the genesis of onnagata / Bunzō Torigoe
Shakespeare and Kabuki / Yoseharu Ozaki
Performing gender: the construction of femininity in Shakespeare and Kabuki / Ann Thompson
The introduction of actresses in England: delay or defensiveness? . Michael Shapiro
Figures of worship: responses to onnagata on the Kabuki stage in seventeenth-century Japanese vernacular prose / Paul G. Schalow
Female-role specialization in Kabuki: how real is real? / Samuel Leiter
The staging of a Kabuki version of Hamlet / Kojī Orita
Sukeroku yukari no edo zakura: its text and performance / Izumi Kadono
Onnagata in Kabuki and the London Globe Theatre / Minoru Fujita
Shakespeare and Kabuki in Maurice Béjart: his King Lear: la mort de Cordelia / Yumiko Yamada
Forum: gender in Shakespeare and Kabuki.