The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami ：A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Smethurst Mae J.;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400860050

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691067520

Subject： J8 Dramatic;J83 national theatre

Keyword： 戏剧艺术

Language： ENG

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Description

By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form. While using the methods of a classicist to increase our understanding of no as literary texts, she also demonstrates that the fifteenth-century treatises of Zeami--an important playwright, actor, critic, and teacher of no--offer fresh insight into Aeschylus' use of actors, language, and various elements of stage presentation.

Relatively little documentation apart from the texts of the plays is available for the Greek theater of the fifth century B.C., but Smethurst uses documentation on no, and evidence from no performances today, to suggest how presentations of the Persians could have been so successful despite the play's lack of dramatic confrontation. Aeschylean theater resembles that of Zeami in creating its powerful emotional and aesthetic effect through a coherent organization of structural elements. Both playwrights used such methods as the gradual intensification of rhythmic and musical effects, an increase in the number and complexity of the actors' movements, and a progressive focusing of attention on the main actors and on costumes, masks, and props during the course of the play.

Originally published in 1989.

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Chapter

Cover

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Structure in Nō

2. Structure in Aeschylean Tragedy

3. The Style of Nō

4. The Style of Aeschylean Tragedy

Coda

Appendix 1: A Comparison of Structural Parts in Nō

Appendix 2: A Comparative Translation of Sections of Sanemori and the Tale of the Heike

Appendix 3: Japanese Passages Analyzed for Style in Chapters Three and Four

Appendix 4: Greek Passages Analyzed for Style in Chapters Three and Four

Glossary of Japanese Terms

Glossary of Greek Terms

Works Cited

Index

Index Locorum

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