The Major Plays of Chikamatsu

ISBN: 0231024908

Author: Keene, Donald

Condition: Used

Major Plays of Chikamatsu gives Western readers a fascinating look at seventeenth-century Japanese culture. Like other playwrights before him, Chikamatsu created characters who are members of a society driven by its mores. However, unlike those of other playwrights of the period, Chikamatsu's characters have multidimensional personalities and unconventional voices, making his art more realistic and complex.

Includes The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinju), The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (Horikawa Nami no Tsuzumi), Yosaku from Tamba (Tamba Yosaku), The Love Suicides in the Womens Temple (Shinju Mannenso), The Courier for Hell (Meido no Hikyaku), Gonza the Lancer (Yari no Gonza), The Uprooted Pine (Nebiki no Kadomatsu), The Girl from Hakata or Love at Sea (Hakata Kojoro Namimakura),
The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinju Ten no Amijima), The Battles of Coxinga (Kokusenya Kassen), The Woman-Killer and the Hell of Oil (Onnagoroshi Abura Jigoku)