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(★)´TO-0070´es mismo libro. (1.Kabuki is widely recognized as one of the world´s foremost theatrical arts, and here are the unforgettable stories of the three great early actors who made kabuki what it is today : Danjuro I, who made bargains with the gods, promising to give up extramarital affairs if only he could be named´peerless among all actors in Japan´; Tojuro, the´Rudolph Valentino´of Japan who kept his private life a closely guarded secret, perhaps as a deliberate ploy to inflame his legions of women fans ; and Ayame, who rose from a childhood of poverty spent working in a brothel to become a great´onnagata´, or performer of women´s roles. Ichikawa Danjuro [1660-1704] established the style called´aragoto´, or´wild acting´ used to portray samurai and violent gods, and was indeed named the´best actor in Edo´ before meeting with a violent end -murdered by a fellow actor onstage during a performance. Sakata Tojuro [1647-1709] was the great master of ´wagoto´, or playing the role of the´gentle hero´, while Yoshizawa Ayame [1673-1729] perfected the art of´becoming´ a woman onstage. Through the diaries of the actors themselves, anecdotes recorded about them, and the comments made by the critics of the day about their performances and their lives, Laurence Kominz builds a compelling narrative of a vibrant theatrical world, full of ambition, camaraderie, competition, and sudden twists of fate. Throughout, the advice of these great men to younger actors about their profession -representing insight hard-won over years of competition- remain as inspiring and moving today as it was centuries ago. A final chapter gives interviews with and insight into the careers of four leading contemporary actors. Kominz draws out the thoughts of Danjuro XII, Ennosuke, Ganjiro, and Tamasaburo on their own struggles and ambitions, and on the legacy that they inherited from these pioneering kabuki actors. This is a riveting introduction to the early days of the dynamic world of kabuki, as revealing about the art of acting as it is about a tumultuous chapter in Japan´s history. 2.Laurence R. Kominz is a professor of Japanese language, literature and theater at Portland State University and a recognized authority on kabuki theater. He has had wide experience performing and directing traditional forms of Japanese theater and dance, and is a subcurator of the Japan Society´s 90th anniversary celebration in October 1997 in New York,´Japanese Theater and the World´. He is the author of´Avatars of Vengeance : Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition´[University of Michigan Press, 1995].) |
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