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detailed No
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as Performance, concerning performance technique; Brown’s pro-
vocative Theatricalities of Power, about cultural politics; Goff’s Noh Drama
and The Tale of Genji, about the relationship between no
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plays and the great
novel by Murasaki Shikibu; O’Neill’s penetrating investigation of no
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’s origins,
Early No
ˆ
Drama; Rath’s revealing analysis of no
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’s methods of self-empower-
ment, The Ethos of Noh; Tamba’s The Musical Structure of Noh; Terasaki’s
close reading of no
ˆ
plays, Figures of Desire; Thornhill’s research into the
metaphysical theories of Zenchiku, Six Circles, One Dewdrop; and Yokota-
Murakami’s The Formation of the Canon of No
ˆ
, which examines why the
canon took the form it did. Essay collections worth examining include Ortolani
and Leiter’s Zeami and the No
ˆ
Theatre in the World, compiled from sympo-
sium papers, and Smethurst and Laffin’s examination of the play Ominaeshi.
There are also a number of groundbreaking translations and studies of Zeami,
among them de Poorter’s Zeami’s Talks on Sarugaku, Hare’s Zeami’s Style,
Sekine’s Zeami and His Theories, Rimer and Yamazaki’s On the Art of the No
ˆ
Drama, and Quinn’s Developing Zeami. There are also comparative studies of
no
ˆ
and Western drama, in particular the plays of W. B. Yeats and Aeschylus,
and the work of Ezra Pound.
Numerous no
ˆ
play translations have been published in widespread sources.
The most readily available collections of translated no
ˆ
plays include Brazell’s
Twelve Plays of the Noh and Kyo
ˆ
gen Theaters; Keene’s Twenty Plays of the No
ˆ
Theatre; the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai’s The Noh Drama; the five volumes
of translations by Shimazaki; Smethurst’s Dramatic Representations of Filial
Piety; Tyler’s Pining Wind, Granny Mountains and Japanese No
ˆ
Dramas;
Waley’s The No
ˆ
Plays of Japan
; and Yasuda’s M
asterworks
of the No
ˆ
Theatre.
Perhaps the most detailed notes for no
ˆ
plays accompany the individually pub-
lished volumes translated by Bethe and Emmert under the general title Noh
Performance Guides.
Bunraku has not been as extensively written about in English as its sister art
of kabuki, but several important books are available for consultation. These
include Adachi’s The Voices and Hands of Bunraku (a revision of an earlier
book), which offers insight into the backstage world. Ando’s Bunraku and
Scott’s The Puppet Theatre of Japan are compact general introductions, but
the most detailed overview remains Keene’s marvelously illustrated Bunraku.
Coaldrake’s detailed study of women chanters, Women’s Gidayu
ˆ
, has a special-
ized focus, as does Law’s Puppets of Nostalgia, an anthrop ol og ica l study of the
ritual purpose s of the puppets of Aw a j i island, which bear a clo se relationsh ip to
those of bunraku. Dunn’s The Early Japanese Puppet Drama examines ko jo
ˆ
ru-
ri, which disappeared with the arrival of Takemoto Gidayu
ˆ
and Chikamatsu
Monzaemon, while Gerstle’s Circles of Fantasy is a serious look at the drama-
turgic conventions in Chikamatsu’s drama. Gerstle, Inobe, and Malm produced
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