Paperback edition 2018.

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Foreword / James R. Brandon -- Timeline / Rachel Payne -- Editor's introduction / Jonah Salz -- Part I. Traditional Theatres: Preface to Part I / Laurence Kominz -- 1. Ancient and early medieval performing arts / Terauchi Naoko -- Interlude: katari narrative traditions: from storytelling to theatre / Alison Tokita -- 2. Noh and Muromachi culture / Shinko Kagaya and Miura Hiroko -- Interlude: noh and kyogen costumes and masks / Monica Bethe -- 3. Kyogen: classical comedy / Jonah Salz -- Interlude: iemoto: the family head system / Eric C. Rath -- 4. Kabuki: superheroes and femmes fatales / Julie Iezzi -- Interlude: nihonbuyô: classical dance / Paul Griffith and Okada Mariko -- Interlude: Okinawan theatre: boundary of Japanese theatre / Suzuki Masae -- 5. Bunraku: puppet theatre / Goto Shizuo -- Interlude: misemono and rakugo: sideshows and storytelling / Matthew Shores -- Interlude: kamigata geinō: Kyoto-Osaka style / Gondo Yoshikazu -- Interlude: traditional theatre tomorrow: interview with Takemoto Mikio / Shinko Kagaya -- Part II. Modern Theatres: Preface to Part II/ Brian Powell -- 6. Birth of modern theatre: Shimpa and shingeki / Brian Powell -- Interlude: new comedy, Asakusa opera, OSK musicals / Nakano Masaaki -- Interlude: Takarazuka: all-girls' revue and musicals / Yamanashi Makiko -- 7. Rise of shingeki: western-style theatre / Guohe Zheng -- Interlude: manzai and yoshimoto comedy vaudeville / Joel Stocker -- 8. Wartime colonial and traditional theatre / Samuel L. Leiter -- Interlude: kami-shibai: picture-card storytelling / Washitani Hana -- 9. Maturing shingeki theatre / Guohe Zheng -- Interlude: post-war musicals and commercial theatre / Kevin Wetmore -- 10. Sixties theatre / Kan Takayuki -- Interlude: butoh: dance of darkness and light / Bruce Baird -- 11. Contemporary theatre / M. Cody Poulton -- Interlude: Tokyo: world theatre capital / Iwaki Kyoko -- Interlude: charting Tokyo theatre today: 24 November 2012 / Iwaki Kyoko -- Interlude: modern theatre tomorrow: interview with Hirata Oriza / Iwaki Kyoko -- Part III. Arcs and Patterns. 12. Pre-modern playwriting practices / Laurence Kominz -- 13. Traditional meta-patterns / Jonah Salz -- 14. Modern drama as literature / J. Thomas Rimer -- 15. Modern meta-patterns / Mari Boyd -- Interlude: Dōjōji: the lady and the bell / Laurence Kominz -- Part IV. Theatre Architecture: Preface to Part IV / Jonah Salz -- 16. Pre-modern patterns of spectatorship and space / Shimizu Hiroyuki -- 17. Modernization of theatrical space, 1868–1940 / Samuel L. Leiter and Nagai Satoko -- 18. Post-war theatres: development and diversification / Otsuki Atsushi -- Interlude: national theatres and funding / Barbara E. Thornbury -- Part V. Theatre Criticism. 19. Practitioner principles, Zeami to Chikamatsu / William Lee -- 20. Pre-modern criticism, research, and training / Nakano Masaaki -- 21. English language scholarship: a critical overview / David Jortner -- Interlude: university scholarship and training / Nakano Masaaki -- Part VI. Intercultural Influences. 22. Seven stages of Shakespeare reception / Daniel Gallimore and Minami Ryuta -- 23. Traditional training internationally / Jonah Salz -- 24. Intercultural theatre: fortuitous encounters / Jonah Salz -- Interlude: early influence from Europe / Yoshihara Yukari -- Interlude: interview with Ninagawa Yukio: Asian energy vs. European rationality / Mika Eglinton -- Epilogue: frozen words and mythology / Eugenio Barba.