Author: Jean-Paul G. POTET
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326459856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Under the influence of the lyrical drama of Medieval Japan called "Noh (N'gaku)," William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) wrote ten short plays to be performed for small elite audiences. These plays constitute his "noble theatre." They fall into two generations. Six plays belong to the first generation: At the Hawk's Well (1917), The only Jealousy of Emer (1919), The Dreaming of the Bones (1919), Calvary (1920), The Cat and the Moon (1926), a farce, and Resurrection (1931). The second generation comprises four plays: A Full Moon in March (1935), The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935), Purgatory (1939), and The Death of Cuchulain (1939).
Author: Masaru Sekine
Publisher: Irish Literary Studies
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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W.B. Yeats wrote the plays in Four Plays for Dancers (1921) when he was strongly influenced by Japanese Noh theatre, and was searching for some breakthrough in his efforts to promote poetic drama. Since then, various books have been published on this topic but, with the notable exception of Richard Taylor, no scholar has been able to cope with both Yeats and Noh. Yeats and the Noh started in a small seminar room in University College Dublin, when both authors took part in productions of The Dreaming of the Bones and Nishikigi with their students. Masaru Sekine directed both plays and Christopher Murray performed in them: they were therefore equipped with live experience as well as their personal expertise in Irish literature and Noh drama. Professor Augustine Martin introduces the volume, and apart from the main section of the book, Colleen Hanrahan, one of the students who took part in both UCD productions, writes about acting in Yeats's play; Peter Davidson writes about Yeats, Pound, Rummel and Dulac; and Katharine Worth provides an essay on Yeats, Beckett and Noh. There are 16 pages of illustrations. This volume is unique in providing detailed analysis of contrasts in theatrical aims, as well as examining why man seeks to explore tragic drama as a means of extending the limits of reality.
Author: Akhtar Qamber
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Joyce Johnson Whitfield
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Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Theses
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Author: Hisako Matsubara
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Category : Nō plays
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420941555
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. He was a complex man, who struggled between beliefs in the strange and supernatural, and scorn for modern science. He was intrigued by the idea of mysticism, yet had little regard for Christianity. His close friend, Ezra Pound, exposed Yeats to the symbolic theatre genre of Japanese Noh drama, prompting him to write "At the Hawk's Well" in 1916. The play, based on the Cuchulain legends of Irish mythology, uses Japanese-style masks and very simple sets to achieve an abstract, stylized form. The story is set by a dried up well on a barren mountainside, guarded constantly by a hawk-woman, and watched diligently by an old man who has waited fifty years to drink from its miraculous waters and the young Cuchulain who fails to heed the old man's warnings.
Author: Jean-Paul Potet
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Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Akhtar Qamber
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Category : Nō plays
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Author: Martha Niemoeller
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Category : Nō (Japanese drama and theater)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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