Major plays of Chikamatsu
Monzaemon Chikamatsu (Author), Wm Theodore De Bary, Donald Keene (Translator), Monzaemon Chikmatsu
"Major Plays of Chikamatsu gives Western readers a fascinating look at seventeenth century Japanese culture. Like other playwrights before him, Chikamatsu created characters who are members of a society driven by its mores. However, unlike those of other playwrights of the period, Chikamatsu's characters have multidimensional personalities and unconventional voices, making his art more realistc and complex."--Publisher's description
Translations
xviii, 485 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780231074155, 9780231074148, 0231074158, 023107414X
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Foreword / Wm. Theodore de Bary
The love suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki shinjū)
The drum of the waves of Horikawa (Horikawa nami no tsuzumi)
Yosaku from Tamba (Tamba Yosaku)
The love suicides in the women's temple (Shinjū mannensō)
The courier for hell (Meido no hikyaku)
The battles of Coxinga (Kokusenya kassen)
Gonza the lancer (Yari no Gonza)
The uprooted pine (Nebiki no kadomatsu)
The girl from Hakata, or love at sea (Hakata kojorō namimakura)
The love suicides at Amijima (Shinjū ten no Amijima)
The woman-killer and the hell of oil (Onnagoroshi abura jigoku)
Appendix I: A note on prostitution in Chikmatsu's plays
Appendix II: Contemporary puppet performances of Chikmatsu's plays
Translation of selected plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon
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