Matsuoka Embodied Performance

Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh Theater
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55929-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei—a leading scholar of noh theater—provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan’s most celebrated art forms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matsuoka, Shinpei

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goff, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Haruo Shirane
Translator’s Introduction
1. Religion as Theater: The Jishu Sect
2. The Archaeology of Performance in an Age of Extravagance
3. The Art of Collaboration
4. The Genesis of Phantasmal Noh Plays
5. Beautiful Temple Boys and the Emperor System
6. Zeami and the Graceful Aura of a Boy’s Figure
7. The Poetics of Space in Noh
8. Zeami’s Vision of the Actor’s Body as a Medium
9. The Actor’s Basic Posture and the Roof-Covered Noh Stage
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Suggested Readings
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matsuoka Shinpei is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on medieval Japanese literature and culture.

Janet Goff (1946–2022) was a scholar and devotee of noh and the author of Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (1991).

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.