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Author(s):	Royall Tyler

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0231214774
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N drama, which integrates speech, song, dance, music, mask, and costume into a distinctive art form, is among Japans most revered cultural traditions. It gained popularity in the fourteenth century, when the actor and playwright Zeami (13631443) drew the favor of the shogun with his theatrical innovations. Ns intricacies and highly stylized conventions continue to attract Japanese and Western appreciation, and a repertoire of some 250 plays is performed today.

Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams presents a selection of N plays, magnificently rendered in English by Royall Tyler, an eminent scholar and translator of classical Japanese literature. It includes both canonical and lesser-known works of Zeamis, as well as anonymous works. Several are outside the established repertoire, offering glimpses of N before the tradition was codified in the Edo period, and have not previously been translated into English. An introduction describes the structure, formal features, and performance conventions of N plays, and brief essays precede each work. Through Tylers authoritative scholarship and keen ear for the subtlety and beauty of the language,
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