Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams

Twenty Plays from the No Tradition
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56045-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams presents a selection of No plays, magnificently rendered in English by Royall Tyler, an eminent scholar and translator of classical Japanese literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tyler, Royall

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
No Plays
Akoya no matsu (The Akoya Pine)
Funabashi (The Boat Bridge)
Furu
Genji kuyo (To Hallow Genji)
Genjo
Hakozaki
Higaki (The Cypress Fence)
Kiyotsune
Kuzu
Matsukaze (Wind in the Pine)
Matsura Sayohime
Naniwa
Nishikigi (The Painted Wands)
Nomori (The Watchman’s Mirror)
Saoyama
Tadatsu no Saemon
Togan Boto (Togan and Boto)
Toru
Tsunemasa
Unoha (Cormorant Feathers)
Essays and Other Translations
Matsukaze and the Music of the Biwa
The Sword of Furu
The Jewel of Shidoji
No Texts Translated
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Royall Tyler is the award-winning translator of The Tale of the Heike and The Tale of Genji. His Columbia University Press books include The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity (2016) and The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan (2024). After teaching at Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Oslo, Tyler retired from the Australian National University.