This book is devoted to the Japanese Noh plays in the fourth group, a colorful assembly of some 90 "miscellaneous Noh" performed fourth in a formal five-Noh program after the climax of the day's entertainment. While its predecessor (Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group) deals with the first four of the nine subgroups into which the fourth-group Noh are divided, Troubled Souls includes six masterpieces chosen from the five remaining subgroups, which deal with fiendish women, mad persons, maskless samurai, street artists, and outcasts.
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Chifumi Shimazaki worked as a translator, lecturer, script writer and marketing researcher, and studied Noh as a performing art under leading Noh actors and musicians for more than fifty years.
Other CEAS publications by this author: Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group (CEAS #76) and Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater (CEAS #60).
Other CEAS publications by this author: Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group (CEAS #76) and Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater (CEAS #60).
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This review is from: Troubled Souls from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group: Kanawa, Semimaru, Kogo, Eboshi-Ori, Jinen Koji and Kagekiyo (Cornell East Asia, No. 95) (Cornell East Asia Series) (Paperback)
This is the first book on Noh that I have ever read, and although I'll probably not read many more I am very impressed with this book. I am not as much impressed by the plays themselves, one does not nearly get as much out of Noh reading it than watching it, as much as the minute detailed scholarly work of Dr. Chifumi Shimazaki. Ever little line of Noh has been carefully analyzed, and Prof Shimazaki gives the references for each part. She also gives a good introduction to each Noh piece,telig of the resources it was written from. This book might be of interest to fans of the Heike monogatari.
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