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Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding of early modern kabuki as a subversive entertainment and a threat to shogunal authority, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history in the inhabitants of Edo (present-day Tokyo) by invoking "worlds," or sekai, derived from earlier military tales, and overlaying them onto the present. She then analyzes the profound changes that took place in Edo kabuki toward the end of the early modern period, which witnessed the rise of a new type of character: the vengeful female ghost.Shimazaki's bold reinterpretation of the history of kabuki centers on the popular ghost play Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (The Eastern Seaboard Highway Ghost Stories at Yotsuya, 1825) by Tsuruya Nanboku IV. Drawing not only on kabuki scripts but also on a wide range of other sources, from theatrical ephemera and popular fiction to medical and religious texts, she sheds light on the development of the ubiquitous trope of the vengeful female ghost and its illumination of new themes at a time when the samurai world was losing its relevance. She explores in detail the process by which nineteenth-century playwrights began dismantling the Edo tradition of "presenting the past" by abandoning their long-standing reliance on the sekai. She then reveals how, in the 1920s, a new generation of kabuki playwrights, critics, and scholars reinvented the form again, "textualizing" kabuki so that it could be pressed into service as a guarantor of national identity.

Kabuki (Japanese drama and theater) --- Japanese drama --- Kabuki --- Théâtre japonais --- History --- History and criticism --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Drama --- J6835 --- J6800.60 --- Theater --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- kabuki --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- E-books --- History and criticism.

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Kabuki --- J5820 --- J6800.60 --- J6835 --- Theater --- History --- Japan: Literature -- drama -- kabuki --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- kabuki --- Soga, Tokimune, --- Soga, Gorō, --- 曽我時宗, --- 曽我時致, --- 曽我祐成, --- 曾我時宗, --- 曾我時致, --- In literature. --- Kabuki plays --- History and criticism.

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Forty-seven Ranin --- Japanese drama --- Quarante-sept Ronin --- Théâtre japonais --- Drama --- Translations into French --- Théâtre --- Traductions françaises --- J6800.60 --- J5800 --- J5500.60 --- J1685.70 --- J6826 --- Japan: Performing and media arts -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Literature -- drama --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Philosophy -- ethics -- bushidō, the way of the samurai --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- theater --- Forty-seven Rānin --- Théâtre japonais --- Théâtre --- Traductions françaises --- Translations into French.