This long-awaited volume presents the fifth and final category of Noh plays, often called kiri-no, or "ending Noh," because they are staged last in a formal performance. This group comprises fifty of the most active and exciting of all plays in the Noh repertoire. They include deities, ghosts, or living humans, as well as a plethora of supernatural beings such as tengu (strange long-nosed creatures), monstrous creatures, demons, and fiends. The fifth-group Noh with such shite are all supernatural or visional. None of them is totally realistic. These ghosts, deities, and monsters sometimes appear to attack men, sometimes to help them, and sometimes just to tell their stories. Dividing the plays into seven subgroups according to structure, the authors fully analyze their dramatic characteristics. The book includes line-by-line translations of eight Noh representing all of the subgroups, together with the Romanized original Japanese texts, detailed introductions, and running commentaries.
| ISBN: | 9781933947617 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2012 |
| Author: | Chifumi Shimazaki, Stephen Comee |
| Publisher: | Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 414 pages |
| Series: | Cornell East Asia Series |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts Theatre studies Literature: history and criticism |
This long-awaited volume presents the fifth and final category of Noh plays, often called kiri-no, or "ending Noh," because they are staged last in a formal performance. This group comprises fifty of the most active and exciting of all plays in the Noh repertoire. They include deities, ghosts, or living humans, as well as a plethora of supernatural beings such as tengu (strange long-nosed creatures), monstrous creatures, demons, and fiends. The fifth-group Noh with such shite are all supernatural or visional. None of them is totally realistic. These ghosts, deities, and monsters sometimes appear to attack men, sometimes to help them, and sometimes just to tell their stories. Dividing the plays into seven subgroups according to structure, the authors fully analyze their dramatic characteristics. The book includes line-by-line translations of eight Noh representing all of the subgroups, together with the Romanized original Japanese texts, detailed introductions, and running commentaries.
Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts, Theatre studies, Literature: history and criticism
Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group is available in Hardback, Paperback
Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group was written by Chifumi Shimazaki, Stephen Comee and published by Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press
Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group has 414 pages
Yes it is part of Cornell East Asia Series series
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