TY - BOOK ID - 101504794 TI - Japanese political theatre in the 18th century : Bunraku puppet plays in social context AU - Odanaka, Akihiro AU - Iwai, Masami PY - 2021 SN - 9780367516772 9780367150624 036715062X 0367516772 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Bunraku - Japan - History - 18th century KW - Bunraku KW - Theater KW - Dramatics KW - Histrionics KW - Professional theater KW - Stage KW - Theatre KW - Performing arts KW - Acting KW - Actors KW - Puppet jōruri KW - Puppet theater KW - History KW - J6837 KW - J5830 KW - Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- puppet plays, bunraku, jōruri KW - Japan: Literature -- drama -- jōruri and bunraku UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101504794 AB - 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. ER -