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Cross Gender Studies Guide by Setsuko Noguchi at UIUC:
http://uiuc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=269791

Includes Kabuki, Noh/Kyogen, Bunraku, Takarazuka, etc. sections.

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Web Resources

Japaense Performing Arts Resource Center
Japanese Literature in Translation Search
Use this database to search for English translation of scripts.
Performing Arts Network Japan
文化デジタルライブラリー / 独立行政法人日本芸術文化振興会

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Oxford Reference
Includes reference sources such as The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, The International Encyclopedia of Dance, etc.

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Reference Sources

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre - Samuel L. Leiter

Call Number: Main Reference Collection PN2921 .L45 2006

ISBN: 0810855275

Publication Date: 2006-01-16

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Videos in Media Services Collection and Online

Theater in Japan: Yesterday and Today (Films For The Humanities & Sciences, 1989) 51:24 mins ((From Theatre in Video) Icon

Dancing: Dance Centerstage by John Hill (composer), Raoul Trujillo, directed by Dunlop, Geoff (ArtHaus Musik) 58:45 mins. Ballet and kabuki. (From Dance in Video) Icon

Dancing: Dance at the Court by John Hill (composer), Raoul Trujillo (ArtHaus Musik) 59:03 mins (From Dance in Video) Icon

Dream Girls , by Longinotto Kim, in Under the Sun (British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1994) 48 minutes.　宝塚 (From Ethbographic Video Online) Icon

Updated: 11/27/2012

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Journals

Asian Theatre Journal Available both in print and via Literature Online, Project Muse, and JSTOR. Check the coverage in each database.

Updated: 11/21/2012

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Books in English

Half a Century of Japanese Theater, 1990s - Japan Playwrights Association Staff

Call Number: Main Library PL782.E5 H35 1999

ISBN: 4314101350

Publication Date: 1999-01-01

Traditional Japanese Theater - Karen Brazell (Editor); James T. Araki (Translator)

Call Number: Main Library PL782.E5 T73 1998

ISBN: 0231108737

Publication Date: 1999-04-27

Alternative Japanese Drama : ten plays - Robert T. Rolf (Editor); John K. Gillespie (Editor); J. Thomas Rimer (Foreword by)

Call Number: Main Library PL782.E5 A44 1992

ISBN: 0824813472

Publication Date: 1992-09-01

Alternative Japanese drama : a brief overview / Takahashi Yasunari -- The little match girl ; The legend of noon ; The cherry in bloom / Betsuyaku Minoru -- The sand of youth, how quickly ; Those days : a lyrical hypothesis on time and forgetting ; The dressing room : that which flows away ultimately becomes nostalgia / Shimizu Kunio -- Knock : street theater / Kishida Rio and Terayama Shūji -- The virgin’s mask ; Two women / Kara Jūrō -- Ismene / Satoh Makoto.

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