"Chikamatsu Monzaemon, a playwright who lived during the Tokugawa shogunate, is known as Japan’s Shakespeare. Deciding kabuki was too disloyal to its playwrights, he wrote the majority of his plays for the bunraku stage. He believed bunraku allowed for deeper complexity for its characters and put less focus on the prestige of its actors the way kabuki did."
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Date: 2008-05-08 10:57 pm (UTC)"Chikamatsu Monzaemon, a playwright who lived during the Tokugawa shogunate, is known as Japan’s Shakespeare. Deciding kabuki was too disloyal to its playwrights, he wrote the majority of his plays for the bunraku stage. He believed bunraku allowed for deeper complexity for its characters and put less focus on the prestige of its actors the way kabuki did."
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