Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays
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Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays
By (Author) Janet Goff
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
895.62
Winner of Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award 1992
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Hardback
312
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
482g
Description
The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire was written. Some of the finest plays were inspired by the eleventh-century masterpiece of court literature, The Tale of Genji. In this detailed study of fifteen noh plays based upon the Genji, Janet
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Winner of the 1992 Hiromi Arisawa Award, Association of American University Presses
