Zeami: Performance Notes
by Motoyiko Zeami
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- ISBN 10
- 0231139586
- ISBN 13
- 9780231139588
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New. Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full range of Zeami's critical thought on this subject, which focused on the aesthetic values of no 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. Spanning over four decades, the texts reflect the essence of Zeami's instruction under his famous father, the actor Kannami, and the value of his long and challenging career in medieval Japanese theater. Tom Hare, who has conducted extensive studies of no academically and on stage, begins with a comprehensive introduction that discusses Zeami's critical importance in Japanese culture. He then incorporates essays on the performance of no in medieval Japan and the remarkable story of the transmission and reproduction of Zeami's manuscripts over the past six centuries. His eloquent translation is fully annotated and includes Zeami's diverse and exquisite anthology of dramatic songs, Five Sorts of Singing, presented both in English and in the original Japanese.
Synopsis
Translated from the Japanese. Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-496) and index. Poems in Japanese and English.
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- The Saint Bookstore (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A9780231139588
- Title
- Zeami: Performance Notes
- Author
- Motoyiko Zeami
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0231139586
- ISBN 13
- 9780231139588
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2008
- LCCN
- 2007037034
- Dewey
- 895.68/2409
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