Masterpieces of Chikamatsu

Informationen zum Autor Robert Nichols Zusammenfassung This is a selection of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists. Master of the marionette and popular dramas, he had, until the publication of this book, remained unknown to western readers owing to the difficulty of translating the work into English. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Literature and the Populace in Old Japan 2. The Origin of the Japanese Drama and Its Varieties 3. The Yokyoku or No Plays 4. The Kyogen, or Comic Interludes 5. The Kabuki Plays, or Plays of the Popular Theatre 6. The Joruri or Puppet Play 7. Life and Works of Chikamatsu; Shinju-mono or Plays Treating Love Suicide and Causes of Love Suicide 8. Characteristics of Chikamatsu 9. Chikamatsu’s Contemporaries and the Subsequent History of the Puppet Play 10. Present Condition of Puppetry – Two Types of Puppet 11. The Regular Theatre of New Japan The Almanac of Love (Koi Hakké Hashiragoyomi). Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem-Cards (Kaoyo Utagaruta). The Courier for Hades (Meido no Hikyaku). The Love Suicide at Amijim (Shinju Tn-no-Amijima). The Adventures of the Hakata Damsel (Hakata Kojoro Namimakura). The Tethered Steed (Kwan-Hasshu Tsunagi-Uma).

Product details

• Authors: Robert Nichols, Robert W. Nichols, Nichols Robert, Robert Nichols
• Assisted by: Asataro Miyamori (Translation), Miyamori Asataro (Translation)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 07.09.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780415591225
• ISBN: 978-0-415-59122-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan; Routledge Library Editions: Japan
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; DRAMA / General, Plays, Playscripts