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Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War ed. by Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (review)

Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War ed. by Elizabeth... 514 BOOK REVIEWS Japan LIKE CLOUDS OR MISTS: STUDIES AND TRANSLATIONS OF NŌ PLAYS OF THE GENPEI WAR. Edited by Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 2013. 539 + xvi pp. Cloth $65.00; Paper $29.00. This comprehensive and delightful volume performs several useful tasks and provides an array of plays, some never before translated into English, for study. Beginning at a workshop in 2005 at Washington University in St. Louis to explore the relationship between the Heike Monogatari and nō, the company of scholars gathered both there and for the volume had two key goals: to produce a number of new translations suitable for the college classroom and to “make the plays meaningful through cultural and historic contextualization for generalists and specialists alike” (p. xiii). The volume succeeds in achieving both goals, providing new translations of sixteen nō plays, thirteen readable scholarly essays, and a pair of appendices that lists the nō plays associated with the Heike Monogatari (first in the order of episodes from the narrative and then alphabetically). The volume as a whole also proceeds chronologically according to the Heike narrative, which allows one to use this book alongside Heike, providing for parallel http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War ed. by Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson (review)

Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 36 (2) – Oct 4, 2019

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University of Hawai'I Press
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Copyright © 2008 The University of Hawai'i Press.
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1527-2109

Abstract

514 BOOK REVIEWS Japan LIKE CLOUDS OR MISTS: STUDIES AND TRANSLATIONS OF NŌ PLAYS OF THE GENPEI WAR. Edited by Elizabeth Oyler and Michael Watson. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Program, 2013. 539 + xvi pp. Cloth $65.00; Paper $29.00. This comprehensive and delightful volume performs several useful tasks and provides an array of plays, some never before translated into English, for study. Beginning at a workshop in 2005 at Washington University in St. Louis to explore the relationship between the Heike Monogatari and nō, the company of scholars gathered both there and for the volume had two key goals: to produce a number of new translations suitable for the college classroom and to “make the plays meaningful through cultural and historic contextualization for generalists and specialists alike” (p. xiii). The volume succeeds in achieving both goals, providing new translations of sixteen nō plays, thirteen readable scholarly essays, and a pair of appendices that lists the nō plays associated with the Heike Monogatari (first in the order of episodes from the narrative and then alphabetically). The volume as a whole also proceeds chronologically according to the Heike narrative, which allows one to use this book alongside Heike, providing for parallel

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Asian Theatre JournalUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Oct 4, 2019

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