Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams
Twenty Plays from the Nō Tradition
Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams
Twenty Plays from the Nō Tradition
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Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams presents a selection of Nō plays, magnificently rendered in English by Royall Tyler, an eminent scholar and translator of classical Japanese literature.
Rightly celebrated for his magnificent English renderings of The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, and other classic Japanese texts, Royall Tyler has struck again with another set of sparkling translations of plays from the Noh drama. The great medieval playwrights subtly spoke from, to, and of the heart; Tyler lets them sing.
It is hard to see how Royall Tyler could improve on perfection, but in this latest offering from our most talented Nō translator, a revised translation of twenty Nō plays, Tyler achieves an ideal combination of elegance and accessibility. Including seven non-repertoire (bangai) plays, three additional essays, and several translations of engi (temple origin legends), this book is highly recommended as a classroom source for understanding Nō in Zeami’s time.
Royall Tyler is the award-winning translator of The Tale of the Heike and The Tale of Genji. His Columbia University Press books include The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity (2016) and The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan (2024). After teaching at Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Oslo, Tyler retired from the Australian National University.
Rightly celebrated for his magnificent English renderings of The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, and other classic Japanese texts, Royall Tyler has struck again with another set of sparkling translations of plays from the Noh drama. The great medieval playwrights subtly spoke from, to, and of the heart; Tyler lets them sing.
It is hard to see how Royall Tyler could improve on perfection, but in this latest offering from our most talented Nō translator, a revised translation of twenty Nō plays, Tyler achieves an ideal combination of elegance and accessibility. Including seven non-repertoire (bangai) plays, three additional essays, and several translations of engi (temple origin legends), this book is highly recommended as a classroom source for understanding Nō in Zeami’s time.
Royall Tyler is the award-winning translator of The Tale of the Heike and The Tale of Genji. His Columbia University Press books include The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity (2016) and The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan (2024). After teaching at Ohio State University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Oslo, Tyler retired from the Australian National University.