Zeami - Performance Notes

Presents the range of Zeami's critical thought on theater and performance, which focused on the aesthetic values of noh and its antecedents, the techniques of playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader intellectual and critical concerns.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Hare, Zeami, Motoyiko Zeami, Zeami Motoyiko, Tom (TRN) Zeami/ Hare
• Assisted by: Tom Hare (Translation), Hare Tom (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2008
• EAN: 9780231139588
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13958-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Translations from the Asian Cl; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Education, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, DRAMA / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights