The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami : : A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No / / Mae J. Smethurst.

By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form. While using the methods of a classicist to increase our understanding of no as literary texts, she also demonstrates that the fifteenth-century tr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1989
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 972
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE. Structure in Nō
  • TWO. Structure in Aeschylean Tragedy
  • THREE. The Style of Nō
  • FOUR. The Style of Aeschylean Tragedy
  • Coda
  • Appendix 1: A Comparison of Structural Parts in Nō
  • Appendix z: A Comparative Translation of Sections of Sanemori and The Tale of the Heike
  • Appendix 3: Japanese Passages Analyzed for Style in Chapters Three and Four
  • Appendix 4: Greek Passages Analyzed for Style in Chapters Three and Four
  • Glossary of Japanese Terms
  • Glossary of Greek Terms
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Index locorum