Masterpieces of Chikamatsu
Author | : Monzaemon Chikamatsu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Monzaemon Chikamatsu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Monzaemon Chikamatsu |
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Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 1926 |
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ISBN | : 9784884630096 |
Author | : Robert Nichols |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-04-24 |
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ISBN | : 9780415849456 |
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. The introduction provides a comprehensive survey of the history of Japanese drama which will assist the reader in better understanding the plays.
Author | : Monzaemon Chikamatsu |
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Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Japanese drama |
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Author | : Monzaemon Chikamatsu |
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Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Monzaemon CHIKAMATSU |
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Total Pages | : 359 |
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Author | : Monzaemon Chikamatsu |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780231074155 |
"Major Plays of Chikamatsu gives Western readers a fascinating look at seventeenth century Japanese culture. Like other playwrights before him, Chikamatsu created characters who are members of a society driven by its mores. However, unlike those of other playwrights of the period, Chikamatsu's characters have multidimensional personalities and unconventional voices, making his art more realistc and complex."--Publisher's description.
Author | : Monzaemon Chikamatsu |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780231111010 |
Chikamatsu's domestic dramas are accurate reflections of Japanese society at the time: his characters are samurai, farmers, merchants, and prostitutes who speak colloquially, and who people the shops, streets, teahouses, and brothels that constituted their daily environment.
Author | : C. Andrew Gerstle |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2002-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231504985 |
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of this major literary figure are performed on kabuki and bunraku stages as well as in the modern theater, and forty-nine films of his plays have been made, thirty-one of them from the silent era. Translations of Chikamatsu's plays are available, but we have few examples of his late work, in which he increasingly incorporated stylistic elements of his shorter, contemporary dramas into his longer period pieces. Translator C. Andrew Gerstle argues that in these mature history plays, Chikamatsu depicted the tension between the private and public spheres of society by combining the rich character development of his contemporary pieces with the larger political themes of his period pieces. In this volume Gerstle translates five plays—four histories and one contemporary piece—never before available in English that complement other collections of Chikamatsu's work, revealing new dimensions to the work of this great Japanese playwright and artist.
Author | : Haruo Shirane |
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Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231144148 |
This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.