Yeats And The Noh

Author : Masaru Sekine,Christopher Murray
Publisher : Irish Literary Studies
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018936396

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Yeats and the Noh by Masaru Sekine,Christopher Murray Pdf

W.B. Yeats wrote the plays in Four Plays for Dancers (1921) when he was strongly influenced by Japanese Noh theatre, and was searching for some breakthrough in his efforts to promote poetic drama. Since then, various books have been published on this topic but, with the notable exception of Richard Taylor, no scholar has been able to cope with both Yeats and Noh. Yeats and the Noh started in a small seminar room in University College Dublin, when both authors took part in productions of The Dreaming of the Bones and Nishikigi with their students. Masaru Sekine directed both plays and Christopher Murray performed in them: they were therefore equipped with live experience as well as their personal expertise in Irish literature and Noh drama. Professor Augustine Martin introduces the volume, and apart from the main section of the book, Colleen Hanrahan, one of the students who took part in both UCD productions, writes about acting in Yeats's play; Peter Davidson writes about Yeats, Pound, Rummel and Dulac; and Katharine Worth provides an essay on Yeats, Beckett and Noh. There are 16 pages of illustrations. This volume is unique in providing detailed analysis of contrasts in theatrical aims, as well as examining why man seeks to explore tragic drama as a means of extending the limits of reality.

Author : Jean-Paul G. POTET
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781326459857

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Yeats and Noh by Jean-Paul G. POTET Pdf

Under the influence of the lyrical drama of Medieval Japan called "Noh (N'gaku)," William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) wrote ten short plays to be performed for small elite audiences. These plays constitute his "noble theatre." They fall into two generations. Six plays belong to the first generation: At the Hawk's Well (1917), The only Jealousy of Emer (1919), The Dreaming of the Bones (1919), Calvary (1920), The Cat and the Moon (1926), a farce, and Resurrection (1931). The second generation comprises four plays: A Full Moon in March (1935), The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935), Purgatory (1939), and The Death of Cuchulain (1939).

Author : Akhtar Qamber
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCAL:B3490011

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Yeats and the Noh, with Two Plays for Dancers by Yeats and Two Noh Plays by Akhtar Qamber Pdf

Author : International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051837798

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Tumult of Images by International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress Pdf

By showing that the meaning of the word politicscan be interpreted in various ways, the scope of the articles in Tumult of Images: Essays on W.B. Yeats and Politicsis extensive. Rather than explicitly analysing W.B. Yeats's political views and opinions about social order, several of the authors demonstrate how these ideas have determined the textual strategy behind Yeats's works. Thus we find, for instance, how Yeats's politics of myth subsume the myth of politics, or how his play The Player Queenis an expression of sexual and textual politics. Other essays revaluate Yeats's role in Ireland's Literary Renaissance or argue that his recruitment of Homer throughout his work was politically motivated. The volume also offers an ero-political reading of Yeats's ballads next to an analysis of the strategy behind that apocalyptic idea of gyring history. Tumult of Imagesalso deals with the politics of reception of Yeats's works by showing how the Irish poet has influenced South African poetry of the period of Apartheid, or by presenting the various ways in which the Japanese and the Dutch have become acquainted with the work of Yeats. The title of this volume thus reflects not only the many-sidedness of the discussions offered here but also their common contribution to an analysis of a fascinating aspect of Yeats's life and work.

Author : Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171566472

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W.B. Yeats by Sunil Kumar Sarker Pdf

J.M. Cohen Wrote That Yeats Was The Greatest Figure In English Poetry Since The Death Of Tennyson , And Ezra Pound, Who Once Went To Yeats To Learn How To Write Poetry, Wrote About Him : I Dare Say ... That Up To Date No One Has Shown Any Disposition To Supersede Him As The Best Poet In England Or Any Likelihood Of Doing So For Some Time... Yeats Is A Very Complex And Difficult Poet, Because There Is In Him A Curious Intermixture Of Romanticism, Realism, Mythology, Supernaturalism, Magic, Ocultism, Automatic Writing, Nationalism, Private Philosophy , And Even Prejudices. His Poems Are Very Compact, Allowing No Elaborations, And Leaving Gaps For The Reader To Imaginatively Fill Them Up, And Thus Making Them More Difficult. Great Explicators And Commentators Have, Of Course, Come Forward, But They Themselves, Sometimes, Are Either Difficult Or Not Enough. Therefore, The One Single Objective Of This Book Is To Introduce The Poet To The General Reader In An Easy Manner.To Give An Idea Of The Poet, As Many As Forty-One Poems, Selected From His Four Stages Of Poetic Development, Have Been Explained (And All Those Poems Have Been Quoted In Full). Yeats Had Also A Métier For Drama, And Had Been A Pioneer Of One Act Plays, And Wrote No Fewer Than Thirty Plays. And So Yeats Has Also Been Discussed As A Dramatist, And, In Addition, Eight Of His Plays Have Been Discussed At Some Length.

Author : Susan H. Smith,Susan Harris Smith,John Chandler,Susan V. Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520050959

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Masks in Modern Drama by Susan H. Smith,Susan Harris Smith,John Chandler,Susan V. Smith Pdf

Author : Akhtar Qamber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Nō plays
ISBN : LCCN:10147468

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Yeats and the Noh by Akhtar Qamber Pdf

Author : Martha Niemoeller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Nō (Japanese drama and theater)
ISBN : WISC:89088302781

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The Influence of the Noh Drama on William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, and Thornton Niver Wilder by Martha Niemoeller Pdf

Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780801877766

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Stage Fright by Martin Puchner Pdf

Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead. Defenders of the theater dismiss modernism's aversion to the stage and its mimicking actors as one more form of the old "anti-theatrical" prejudice. But Puchner shows that modernism's ambivalence about the theater was shared even by playwrights and directors and thus was a productive force responsible for some of the greatest achievements in dramatic literature and theater. A reaction to the aggressive theatricality of Wagner and his followers, the modernist backlash against the theater led to the peculiar genre of the closet drama—a theatrical piece intended to be read rather than staged—whose long-overlooked significance Puchner traces from the theatrical texts of Mallarmé and Stein to the dramatic "Circe" chapter of Joyce's Ulysses. At times, then, the anti-theatrical impulse leads to a withdrawal from the theater. At other times, however, it returns to the stage, when Yeats blends lyric poetry with Japanese Nôh dancers, when Brecht controls the stage with novelistic techniques, and when Beckett buries his actors in barrels and behind obsessive stage directions. The modernist theater thus owes much to the closet drama whose literary strategies it blends with a new mise en scène. While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner also provides a new account of the contradictory forces within modernism.

Author : Warwick Gould
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349119165

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Yeats Annual No. 10 by Warwick Gould Pdf

Yeats Annual No. 10 finds new thresholds and margins in Yeats's thought and work. It concentrates upon his plays, his occult concerns with spiritualism and the Irish belief in an otherworld, and closely examines certain aspects of his textual state and the borders of his canon. 'The admirable Yeats Annual ... a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of ... Yeats ... full of interest'. Bernard O'Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement

Author : David A. Ross
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438126920

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Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats by David A. Ross Pdf

Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

Author : Hiro Ishibashi
Publisher : Dublin : Dolmen Press; U.S. distributors, Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, Pa.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English poetry Japanese influences
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035014799

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Yeats and the Noh by Hiro Ishibashi Pdf

Author : Jean-Paul Potet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:800964340

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W. B. Yeats & Noh Drama by Jean-Paul Potet Pdf

Author : Maeve Good
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349082469

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W. B. Yeats and the Creation of a Tragic Universe by Maeve Good Pdf

Author : Charles I. Armstrong
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441139719

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Reframing Yeats by Charles I. Armstrong Pdf

Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W. B. Yeats's writings, examining instances of his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama. Identifying a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and formalist methodologies, Armstrong's study combines an historicist perspective with close attention to literary form. The result is a flexible approach that casts new light on how Yeats's texts interact with their interpretative frameworks. Cognizant of both literary and political history, this book presents new interpretations of Yeats's work. Not only does it provide fresh readings of texts such as "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited,†? "Among School Children†? and "The Resurrection", but it also raises important new questions concerning Yeats's relationship to Modernism and literary genre.