Session 27: Kabuki theater (brief), Honor & shame III: Puppet theater, Chikamatsu’s plays of double love suicide

Topics

❖ Puppet theater (文楽 bunraku)
❖ People: Chikamatsu Monzaemon (17th-18th c. / Edo playwright)
❖ Texts: Chikamatsu's Love Suicides at Sonezaki (曾根崎心中, Sonezaki shinjū, 1703)
❖ Texts: Chikamatsu's Love Suicides at Amijima (心中天の網島, Shinjū Ten no Amijima, 1720)

Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests

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Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Read Sonezaki then Amijima. Read Amijima carefully. If you have time to read both, read Sonezaki first because Amijima is an extension of that original work. If you don't feel you have time to read both, then Amijima is the core assignment.

Multimedia notes

❖ Film Double Suicide (心中天網島, Shinjū: Ten no amijima) is a (1969, Masahiro Shinoda based on Love Suicides at Amijima)

Links

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Other

Terms and such mentioned this day that are not otherwise in an obvious place on the web site, the powerpoints, the assigned reading, etc. (to help with capturing items mentioned, perhaps quickly, in class, not for test purposes)

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