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Page 58
... popular theatre of the common people , and the noh , the aristocratic theatre of the upper classes . First we'll go to a kabuki performance . This is somewhat later in time than our Chinese visit . Kabuki was at the height of its popularity ...
... popular theatre of the common people , and the noh , the aristocratic theatre of the upper classes . First we'll go to a kabuki performance . This is somewhat later in time than our Chinese visit . Kabuki was at the height of its popularity ...
Page 59
... popular Japanese stage . Probably one of them was by Chikamatsu Monzayemon , an eighteenth - century playwright whom some have called the Japanese Shakespeare , which we may take to be a slightly exag- gerated comparison . Chikamatsu ...
... popular Japanese stage . Probably one of them was by Chikamatsu Monzayemon , an eighteenth - century playwright whom some have called the Japanese Shakespeare , which we may take to be a slightly exag- gerated comparison . Chikamatsu ...
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... popular comedy with which this chapter is concerned was remarkable but created nothing permanent in itself . The other form of theatre practiced in courtly circles was peculiarly artificial and concerned with values and effects ...
... popular comedy with which this chapter is concerned was remarkable but created nothing permanent in itself . The other form of theatre practiced in courtly circles was peculiarly artificial and concerned with values and effects ...
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