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Traditional Japanese theater : an anthology of plays

Author: Karen Brazell; James T Araki; et al
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1998.
Series: Translations from the Asian classics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Introduces the genres of noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bunraku puppet theater, and offers translations of thirty of the best-known plays, with background information on their history, characters, staging, and significance.
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Genre/Form: Traductions anglaises
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karen Brazell; James T Araki; et al
ISBN: 0231108729 9780231108720 0231108737 9780231108737
OCLC Number: 37246825
Description: xiv, 561 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Japanese theater : a living tradition --
Kamo / attributed to Zenchiku ; translated by Monica Bethe --
Thunderbolt = Kaminari / author unknown ; translated by Royall Tyler --
Saint Narukami / by Tsuuchi, Yasuda, and Nakada ; translated by James R. Brandon --
Mount Tempai and tumult in the palace / by Takeda, Namiki, Miyoshi ; translated by Stanleigh H. Jones, Jr. Noh plays. Atsumori / by Zeami ; translated by Karen Brazell --
Izutsu / by Zeami ; translated by Karen Brazell --
Miidera / author unknown ; translated by Eileen Katō --
Shunkan / author unknown ; translated by Eileen Katō --
Dōjōji / author unknown ; translated by Donald Keene --
Yamamba / attributed to Zeami ; translated by Monica Bethe and Karen Brazell. Kyōgen plays. Two daimyō = Futari daimyō / author unknown ; translated by Richard McKinnon --
The delicious poison = Busu / author unknown ; translated by Don Kenny --
Mushrooms = Kusabira / author unknown ; translated by Carolyn Anne Morley --
The snail = Kagyū / author unknown ; translated by Don Kenny --
The "sickley" stomach = Kamabara / author unknown ; translated by Carolyn Haynes --
Kanaoka / author unknown ; translated by Carolyn Haynes --
The cicada = Semi / author unknown ; translated by Carolyn Haynes. Other performance traditions. Atsumori / author unknown ; translated by James T. Araki. Puppet plays [bunraku]. The battle of Coxinga / by Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; translated by Donald Keene --
The love suicides at Amijima = Shinjū ten no Amijima / by Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; translated by Donald Keene --
The first note of spring / by Takeda, Miyoshi, and Namiki ; translated by Janet Goff --
At the farmhouse / by Takeda, Miyoshi, and Namiki ; translated by Donald Keene --
The Awaji tradition / Jane Marie Law --
The song of Sambasō = Sambasō jiutai / anonymous ; translated by Jane Marie Law --
The miracle of the Tsubosaka Kannon / by Kako Chikajo and Toyozawa Danpei II ; translated by Jane Marie Law. Kabuki plays. Shunkan on Devil Island / by Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; translated by Samuel L. Leiter --
Suma Bay / by Namiki Senryū ; translated by James R. Brandon --
Yotsuya ghost stories / by Tsuruya Nanboku IV ; translated by Mark Oshima --
The Hamamatsu-ya scene / by Kawatake Mokuami ; translated by Samuel L. Leiter --
A maiden at Dōjōji = Musume Dōjōji / translated by Mark Oshima.
Series Title: Translations from the Asian classics.
Responsibility: edited by Karen Brazell ; translators, James T. Araki ... [et al.].

Abstract:

Introduces the genres of noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bunraku puppet theater, and offers translations of thirty of the best-known plays, with background information on their history, characters, staging, and significance.

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