Description This book traces the History of noh and ky gen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts.
His recent work includes \'The Early History of the Noh Play: Literacy, Authorship, and Scriptedness\' in Monumenta Nipponica (2014) and collaboration on the film adaptation of the noh play Kinuta, set in Arizona, titled Wind Well (2017)..
He has held appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, Arizona, and Kyushu.
About the Author Noel John Pinnington is Associate Professor Emeritus of the University of Arizona, USA.
It also contains the first detailed study in English of the ky gen repertoire of the sixteenth-century.
To that end, it contains sections which discuss a number of prominent noh plays in their period and challenges established approaches.
This book attempts to answer where noh came from, what it was like in its day, and what it was for.
However, audiences are often confused as to what noh actually is.
The masked drama of noh, with its ghosts, chanting and music, and its use in Japanese films, has been the object of modern international interest.
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.
O\'Neill\'s Early N Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh\'s Medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of ky gen, which has often been left in noh\'s shadow.
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Description This book traces the History of noh and ky gen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts
