Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays - Rilegato

Chikamatsu, Monzaemon

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0231121660 ISBN 13: 9780231121668

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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.
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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

C. Andrew Gerstle is a professor of Japanese studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is the author ofCircles of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu and editor of Eighteenth Century Japan and other books.

Product Description:

Book by Gerstle C Andrew Gerstle C Andrew

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0231121660
• ISBN 13: 9780231121668
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 534