Masterpieces of Chikamatsu: The Japanese Shakespeare

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Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926 - 359 strán (strany)

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Strana 307 - Thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake : Till age, or grief, or sickness must Marry my body to that dust It so much loves, and fill the room My heart keeps empty in thy tomb. Stay for me there ; I will not fail To meet thee in that hollow vale.
Strana 151 - Bridge I see The Hoar-frost King has cast His sparkling mantle, well I know.' " "Heaven!" said Kojiju, smiling, as she took up the latter lines: " 'The night is nearly past, Daylight approaches fast.
Strana 149 - The next is the poem by the Mother of the Minister of State : ' How difficult it is for men Not to forget the past!'" " At least I can't fail to pick one up ! " cried Yokobue excitedly. She took up the card and read mechanically : " ' I fear my husband's love for me Is disappearing fast; This day must be my last.
Strana 17 - ... the noh plays and in the intervals between the more serious pieces. Their purpose is to relax the strain on the nerves of the audience produced by the solemn noh performances. The kyogen are the only plays of old Japan which have no musical accompaniment and resemble European dramas in form. Not a few of these comic interludes are witty satires on human failings and social evils, but the majority are primitive and naive farces, meant to tickle the audience with amusing portrayal of innocent follies....
Strana 148 - THOUGH love, like blisters made from leaves Grown on Mount Ibuki, Torments me more than I can say, My lady shall not see, How she is paining me. The writer lived some time at the close of the tenth century. The artemisia plant (or mugwort) is used in Japan for cauterizing; a conical wad of the leaves or blossoms is placed on the spot, lit at the top, and allowed to burn down to the skin; this produces...
Strana 18 - ... no musical accompaniment and resemble European dramas in form. Not a few of these comic interludes are witty satires on human failings and social evils, but the majority are primitive and naive farces, meant to tickle the audience with amusing portrayal of innocent follies. In contrast to the noh plays, composed of a patchwork of classic quotations and of dialogue in the colloquial language of the Kamakura Period, the kyogen consist entirely of dialogue and monologue in the colloquial of the...
Strana 47 - Art lies in the shadowy frontiers between reality and unreality. Art appears unreal, but it is not unreality ; art has the appearance of reality, but it is not reality. The worth of art lies between reality and unreality.
Strana 13 - No stage a palace, a house, a cottage, a hovel, are all represented by four posts covered with a roof; the fan which the actor usually carries...
Strana 58 - The most important of all plays performed in the regular theatre of to-day are the puppet plays treated by living actors. As the accompaniment of rhythmical chanting and of samisen music exactly suits the Japanese taste, and the sentiments to be found in these dramas appeal to the psychology of the masses, and above all since these plays possess a remarkable literary value, the puppet play remains highly appreciated and is frequently played all over the country.
Strana 20 - ... of the people around him. In jidai-mono, historical plays, although the heroes are drawn from the pages of history, the plots are nevertheless far removed from actual events. Even more distant from life is a special variety of historical play, aragoto, which, as mentioned already, treats of Herculean warriors, weird spectres, etc. and appeals to the feeling of the audience by fantastic action, bombastic dialogue and grotesque make-up.

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