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Art of Kabuki: Famous Plays in Performance
by Leiter, Samuel L
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0520035550
- ISBN 13
- 9780520035553
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Square small quarto, yellow cloth covered boards. 298pp. including index, bibliography and glossary. Generously illustrated with black and white photographs of performers, stage sets, costumes and accoutrements. With and detailed introduction to the history of Kabuki theater followed by four full scripts of Kabuki plays in translation along with photographs of the staging and performance of each play and illustrations and discussions of details of of the traditions of performance, set construction and costuming. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright volume with fresh cloth, unmarked and unblemished in a crisp, sharp, bright, dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. A perfect copy..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07020
- Title
- Art of Kabuki: Famous Plays in Performance
- Author
- Leiter, Samuel L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520035550
- ISBN 13
- 9780520035553
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- KABUKI LITERARY CRITICISM DRAMA, JAPAN, JAPANESE, TRADITIONAL, POPULAR, STAGE, THEATRE, THEATER, PLAYWRIGHT, PLAY, DRAMATIST, ACTOR, COSTUME, PLOT, STORY, EDO, KYOTO, STYLE, DESIGN, LITERATURE, CLASSIC, ACTING, PERFORMANCE, LEITER, HISTORY, HISTORICAL, IL
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Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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