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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions |
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Routledge Library Editions
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| Contents |
Book cover; title01; copyright01; title02; preface; a letter from doctor shōyō tsubo-uchi, the best authority on japanese drama; contents; list of illustrations; introduction; i: literature and the populace in old japan; ii: the origin of the japanese drama and its varieties; iii: the yōkyoku or nō plays; iv: the kyōgen, or comic interludes; v: the kabuki plays, or plays of the popular theatre; vi: the jōruri or puppet play; vii: life and works of chikamatsu; shinjū mono or plays treating of love suicide and the causes of love suicide; viii: characteristics of chikamatsu |
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Ix: chikamatsu's contemporaries and the subsequent history of the puppet playx: present condition of puppetry-two types of puppet; xi: the regular theatre of new japan; the almanac of love; the almanac of love; fair ladies at a game of poem-cards; fair ladies at a game of poem-cards; the courier for hades; the courier for hades; the love suicide at amijima; the love suicide at amijima; the adventures of the hakata damsel; the adventures of the hakata damsel; the tethered steed; the tethered steed |
| Summary |
This is a selection of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists. Master of the marionette and popular dramas, he had, until the publication of this book, remained unknown to western readers owing to the difficulty of translating the work into English |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725 -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725 fast |
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Japanese literature -- Translations into English
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Japanese literature
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miyamori, Asatarō, 1869-1952.
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| ISBN |
9780203843529 |
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0203843525 |
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