A New History Of Medieval Japanese Theatre

Author : Noel John Pinnington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030061401

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A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre by Noel John Pinnington Pdf

This book traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's Early Nō Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyōgen, which has often been left in noh's shadow. It is based on contemporary research in Japan, Asia, Europe and America, and embraces current ideas of theatre history, providing a richly contextualized account which looks closely at theatrical forms and genres as they arose. The masked drama of noh, with its ghosts, chanting and music, and its use in Japanese films, has been the object of modern international interest. However, audiences are often confused as to what noh actually is. This book attempts to answer where noh came from, what it was like in its day, and what it was for. To that end, it contains sections which discuss a number of prominent noh plays in their period and challenges established approaches. It also contains the first detailed study in English of the kyōgen repertoire of the sixteenth-century.

Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442239111

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Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre by Samuel L. Leiter Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre is the only dictionary that offers detailed comprehensive coverage of the most important terms, people, and plays in the four principal traditional Japanese theatrical forms—nō, kyōgen, bunraku, and kabuki—supplemented with individual historical essays on each form. This updated edition adds well over 200 plot summaries representing each theatrical form in addition to: a chronology; introductory essay; appendixes; an extensive bibliography; over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important terms; brief biographies of the leading artists and writers; and plot summaries of significant plays. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Japanese theatre.

Author : Jonah Salz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108458165

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A History of Japanese Theatre by Jonah Salz Pdf

Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo storytelling, vanguard butoh dance and media experimentation. The first part addresses traditional genres, their historical trajectories and performance conventions. Part II covers the spectrum of new genres since Meiji (1868-), and Parts III to VI provide discussions of playwriting, architecture, Shakespeare, and interculturalism, situating Japanese elements within their global theatrical context. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and prints, this history features interviews with key modern directors, an overview of historical scholarship in English and Japanese, and a timeline. A further reading list covers a range of multimedia resources to encourage further explorations.

Author : Ernest Francisco Fenollosa,Ezra Pound
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104456834

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Noh, Or Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan (1916) by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa,Ezra Pound Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Faubion Bowers
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781462912186

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Japanese Theatre by Faubion Bowers Pdf

Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan. Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song – dance – skill." The precursors of Kabuki were the puppet theater and the comic interludes in the stately, aristocratic Noh drama – all fully described by the author. In the modem era the Japanese have broken away from Kabuki, and their stage has shown a realistic trend. Left–wing theater groups arose in the 1920’s, were suppressed by the militarists, and then revived during the occupation. Appended to the historical chapters are Mr. Bowers's translations of three Kabuki plays: The Monstrous Spider, Gappo and His Daughter Tsuji, and the bombastic Sukeroku. This book, with its many excellent photographs, is a permanent addition to the West's knowledge of the exotic, exciting theater of Japan and its tradition of great acting.

Author : James T. Araki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520332966

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The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan by James T. Araki Pdf

A history of Kowaka, the 16th century ballad-drama, including stylistic analysis and explication of the texts, with examples, plus two complete librettos.

Author : Samuel L. Leiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317478041

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A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance by Samuel L. Leiter Pdf

Unique in any Western language, this is an invaluable resource for the study of one of the world's great theatrical forms. It includes essays by established experts on Kabuki as well as younger scholars now entering the field, and provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Kabuki; how it is written, produced, staged, and performed; and its place in world theater. Compiled by the editor of the influential Asian Theater Journal, the book covers four essential areas - history, performance, theaters, and plays - and includes a translation of one Kabuki play as an illustration of Kabuki techniques.

Author : Geraldine Heng
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295192

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Teaching the Global Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng Pdf

While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.

Author : Benito Ortolani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0691043337

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The Japanese Theatre by Benito Ortolani Pdf

Widely recognized as the standard history of Japanese theatre for Western readers, this work by Benito Ortolani is now available for the first time in paperback. From ancient folk and ritual performances to modern dance theatre, it provides concise summaries about each major theatrical form, situating the genre in its particular social, political, and cultural contexts and integrating a vast array of detail on such topics as staging, costuming, masks and properties, repertory, acting techniques, and noteworthy actors. Complete with illustrations and an extensive bibliography, this book serves undergraduates and specialists both as a reference and as a cultural history of Japan seen from the perspective of the performing arts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Bunraku
ISBN : UOM:39015040605829

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A History of Japanese Theater: Noh and Kyogen by Y. Inoura by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134241941

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Japan's Modern Theatre by Brian Powell Pdf

This book endeavours to unravel the complicated skeins of Japanese theatre in the modern period and offers an appreciation of the richness of choice of presentational and representational theatre forms. Since the end of world War II there has been continuing but different conflict between the major theatrical genres. Kabuki continues to defend its ground successfully, but the 'new drama' (shingeki) became firmly established in its own right in the 1960s. It was a vigorous and exuberant 'underground' theatre which exploited anything and everything in the Japanese and western theatre traditions. Now, thirty years on, they too have been superseded. The youth theatre of the 1980s and 90s has thrown aside the concerns of the angry underground and developed a fast-moving bewilderingly kaleidoscopic drama of breath-taking energy.

Author : Susan Blakely Klein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684176236

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Dancing the Dharma by Susan Blakely Klein Pdf

Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven plays (Maiguruma, Kuzu no hakama, Unrin’in, Oshio, Kakitsubata, Ominameshi, and Haku Rakuten) and two treatises (Zeami’s Rikugi and Zenchiku’s Meishukushū). In so doing, she shows that it was precisely the allegorical mode—vital to medieval Japanese culture as a whole—that enabled the complex layering of character and poetic landscape we typically associate with noh. Klein argues that understanding noh’s allegorical structure and paying attention to the localized historical context for individual plays are key to recovering their original function as political and religious allegories. Now viewed in the context of contemporaneous beliefs and practices of the medieval period, noh plays take on a greater range and depth of meaning and offer new insights to readers today into medieval Japan.

Author : Ōgimachi Machiko
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231553162

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In the Shelter of the Pine by Ōgimachi Machiko Pdf

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave birth to two of his sons. Writing after Yoshiyasu’s retirement, she recalled it all—from the glittering formal visits of the shogun and his entourage to the passage of the seasons as seen from her apartments in the Yanagisawa mansion. In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan’s early modern era. Featuring Machiko’s keen eye for detail, strong narrative voice, and polished prose studded with allusions to Chinese and Japanese classics, this memoir sheds light on everything from the social world of the Tokugawa elite to the role of literature in women’s lives. Machiko modeled her story on The Tale of Genji, illustrating how the eleventh-century classic continued to inspire its female readers and provide them with the means to make sense of their experiences. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is a vivid portrait of a distant world and a vital addition to the canon of Japanese literature available in English.

Author : Casey Schoenberger,Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies Casey Schoenberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198886211

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Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance by Casey Schoenberger,Lecturer in Transnational Asian Studies Casey Schoenberger Pdf

This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry and vocal arts. Using insights from cognitive neuroscience, digital humanities, musicology, and linguistics, Casey Schoenberger offers new perspectives on a wide range of issues in the field.

Author : Frank Alanson Lombard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317418559

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An Outline History of the Japanese Drama by Frank Alanson Lombard Pdf

Students of international drama are turning more and more to the study of Japanese drama, desirous to know to what extent its development duplicates or differs from the evolution of drama in other countries. Stimulated by the colour, originality, power, and poetry, they are interested to know more. This title, first published in 1928, traces the general development of the drama of the Japanese. This book will be of interest to students of drama, theatre studies and Asian Studies.