Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa

Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa

Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa I In the series of books...
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Author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler),1865-1939
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Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa

Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa

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Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa

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Author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler),1865-1939
Format: eBook
Language: English

Certain Noble Plays of Japan: From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa

I In the series of books I edit for my sister I confine myself to those that have I believe some special value to Ireland, now or in the future. I have asked Mr. Pound for these beautiful plays because I think they will help me to explain a certain possibility of the Irish dramatic movement. I am writing these words with my imagination stirred by a visit to the studio of Mr. Dulac, the distinguished illustrator of the Arabian Nights. I saw there the mask and head-dress to be worn in a play of mine by the player who will speak the part of Cuchulain, and who wearing this noble half-Greek half-Asiatic face will appear perhaps like an image seen in revery by some Orphic worshipper. I hope to have attained the distance from life which can make credible strange events, elaborate words. I have written a little play that can be played in a room for so little money that forty or fifty readers of poetry can pay the price. There will be no scenery, for three musicians, whose seeming sun-burned faces will I hope suggest that they have wandered from village to village in some country of our dreams, can describe place and weather, and at moments action, and accompany it all by drum and gong or flute and dulcimer. Instead of the players working themselves into a violence of passion indecorous in our sitting-room, the music, the beauty of form and voice all come to climax in pantomimic dance. In fact with the help of these plays 'translated by Ernest Fenollosa and finished by Ezra Pound' I have invented a form of drama, distinguished, indirect and symbolic, and having no need of mob or press to pay its wayan aristocratic form. When this play and its performance run as smoothly as my skill can make them, I shall hope to write another of the same sort and so complete a dramatic celebration of the life of Cuchulain planned long ago. Then having given enough performances for I hope the pleasure of personal friends and a few score people of good taste, I shall record all discoveries of method and turn to something else. It is an advantage of this noble form that it need absorb no one's life, that its few properties can be packed up in a box, or hung upon the walls where they will be fine ornaments. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 8094
Author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

Translator: Fenollosa, Ernest, 1853-1908

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