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It remains a remarkable coincidence that by the early 17th century, from opposite sides of the globe and virtually completely ignorant of each other's cultures, both the English stage of Shakespeare and the Japanese stage of Kabuki had evolved cross-dressing traditions - only one of which - Kabuki - has survived intact into the present day. In this rich and varied collection of essays by leading scholars from the USA, Europe and Japan, the history, culture and development of cross-gender casting in both traditions is explored from a variety of angles and points of view, thereby providing many new access points for further research, ongoing discussion and debate. Contents include: "Between the men and women: the Elizabethan gender system and the cross-dressed theatre" by Louis Montrose; "The Onnagata and the female page: female impersonation and other topics in Shakespeare and Kabuki" by John Russell Brown; "Performing gender: the construction of femininity in Shakespeare and Kabuki" and "The staging of a Kabuki version of Hamlet" by Orita Koji.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; List of Contributors; 1 A Note on the Genesis of Onnagata; 2 Shakespeare and Kabuki; 3 Performing Gender: The Construction of Femininity in Shakespeare and Kabuki; 4 The Introduction of Actresses in England: Delay or Defensiveness?; 5 Figures of Worship: Responses to Onnagata on the Kabuki Stage in Seventeenth-century Japanese Vernacular Prose; 6 Female-role Specialization in Kabuki: How Real is Real?; 7 The Staging of a Kabuki Version of Hamlet; 8 Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura – Its Text and Performance; 9 Onnagata in Kabuki and the London Globe Theatre; 10 Shakespeare and Kabuki in Maurice Bejart: His King Lear: La Mort de Cordelia; 11 Forum: Gender in Shakespeare and Kabuki; Afterword; Index

About the Author :
Minoru Fujita, Professor Emeritus at Osaka University , is the author of Pageantry and Spectacle in Shakespeare (1982), and co-editor (with Leonard Pronko) of Shakespeare East and West (1996). He was an adviser to the construction of the Tokyo Globe when it was built in 1988. Michael Shapiro is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Children of the Revels:The Boy Companies of Shakespeare's time and their Plays (1976) and Gender in Play on the Shakespeare Stage (1994).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781901903317
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Global Oriental Ltd
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Weight: 500 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1901903311
  • Publisher Date: 07 Sep 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 145 mm


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