Creating Kabuki Plays : Context for Kezairoku, 'Valuable Notes on Playwriting' (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)

Significant study of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867), based around an examination and translation of the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject, the 1801 Kezairoku, Sakusha no Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights' Methodology.)