Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Contexts: Japan in the Muromachi Age -- Forerunners of Noh Theatre -- Early Noh and Its Founders -- Noh in Zeami's Lifetime -- The Classic Noh Plays -- Noh in the Age of Chaos 1450-1600 -- Medieval Kyōgen.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P.G. O'Neill's Early Nō Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyōgen, which has often been left in noh's shadow. It is based on contemporary research in Japan, Asia, Europe and America, and embraces current ideas of theatre history, providing a richly contextualized account which looks closely at theatrical forms and genres as they arose.