A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600 /

• Main Author: Pinnington, Noel John (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Theater.; Theatre History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.

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 l...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Contexts: Japan in the Muromachi Age
• 2. Forerunners of Noh Theatre
• 3. Early Noh and its Founders
• 4. Noh in Zeami's Lifetime
• 5. The Classic Noh Plays
• 6. Noh in the Age of Chaos 1450-1600
• 7. Medieval Kyōgen.