Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play
by Takeda Izumo
from Columbia University Press
-- The New Yorker
The Peony Pavilion: Mudan ting, Second Edition
by Xianzu Tang
from Indiana University Press
One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English translation, brought up-to-date in this new edition. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle humor of this drama by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists.
Japanese No Dramas (Penguin Classics)
by Various
from Penguin Classics
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
from Columbia University Press
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today, and he is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition contains four of his most important plays including three popular domestic dramas and one history play.
The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts (Oxford World's Classics)
by Kalidasa
from Oxford University Press, USA
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in tone and in performance, The Recognition of Sakuntala aimed to produce an experience of
aesthetic rapture in the audience, comparable to certain types of mystical experience.
The pioneering English translation of Sakuntala in 1789 caused a sensation among European composers and writers (including Goethe), and it continues to be performed around the world. This vibrant new verse translation includes the famous version of the story from the Mahabharata, a poetic and
dramatic text in its own right and a likely source for Kalidasa. The introduction discusses the play in the aesthetic and cultural context of ancient India.
The Story of the Western Wing
by Shi-fu Wang
from University of California Press
China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play has given rise to innumerable sequels, parodies, and rewritings; it has influenced countless later plays, short stories, and novels and has played a crucial role in the development of drama criticism. This translation of the full and complete text of the earliest extant version is available in paperback for the first time. The editors' introduction will inform students of Chinese cultural and literary traditions.
The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (New Directions Paperbook)
from New Directions Publishing Corporation
The Mahabharata
from Columbia University Press
Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an index correlating the verses with the original Sanskrit text.
Shanghai: A Novel (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 33)
by Riichi Yokomitsu
from University of Michigan Press
Six Yuan Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Various
from Penguin Classics
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