Creating Kabuki Plays Context for Kezairoku, "Valuable Notes on Playwriting"

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 Shikiho" (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights Methodology.)