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East Asian Drama (Volume D)

East Asian Drama (Volume D). Asian Literature: Development. Interest in short, lyrical poetry. Characteristics. Dance dramas (combining dance, music, chant, and singing) Role types Fixed musical repertoire Anonymous authorship (due to oral transmission)

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East Asian Drama (Volume D)

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  1. East Asian Drama (Volume D)

  2. Asian Literature: Development • Interest in short, lyrical poetry

  3. Characteristics • Dance dramas (combining dance, music, chant, and singing) • Role types • Fixed musical repertoire • Anonymous authorship (due to oral transmission) • Vigorous and lengthy training for performers

  4. Chinese Variety Plays • Zaju (Northern) • Chuanqi (Southern) • “Tales of the marvelous” • Ming Dynasty • Qu-pai • Stylization • Minimal scenery • Interwoven plots

  5. Confucianism: The Peach Blossom Fan • Perfection through personal growth, communal experience • Righteousness, altruism, propriety • Attention to social order, loyalty • Respect for elders • Self-governance

  6. Japanese Noh Drama • “Noh” = talent, skill, accomplishments • Patronage by shoguns, the military leaders • Kabuki and puppet theater • Hereditary performance • Buddhist chanting • Imperial court song and dance • Limited actors • Austere, undecorated stage • Stylization

  7. Noh Masks

  8. Atsumori “As the Teaching that enjoins the Good is seldom found, birth in the human realm quickly ends, like a spark from a flint. This we never knew, nor understood that vigour is followed by decline. Lords of the land, we were, but caused much grief; blinded by wealth, we never knew our Pride” (Atsumori, Act 2: 14).

  9. Kabuki Theater • Stylization, gesture • Make-up • Urbanization • Social classes

  10. Monzaemon: Bunraku, Puppet Theater • Popular art form • Puppets • Joruri chanting • Shamisen • Voice training

  11. From the Love Suicides at Amijima “Poor creatures, though they would discover today their destiny in the Sutra of Cause and Effect, tomorrow the gossip of the world will scatter like blossoms the scandal of Kamiya Jihei’s love suicide, and, carved in the cherry wood, his story to the last detail will be printed in illustrated sheets” (Act 3, Scene 2).

  12. P’ansori: Korean narrative drama • Shaman song, folktales • Percussive art form • Sorikkun • Gosu • Chuimsae (verbal sounds) • Audience interaction • Use of hand props

  13. from The Song of Ch’un-Hyang “What was my crime? I have not stolen government grain. Why was I beaten so fiercely? I am not a murderer. Why am I put in the cangue and the stocks? I have not broken the laws. Why have I been bound hand and foot? I have not committed adultery. I will take the waters of the rivers for ink and the blue sky for my paper; and protest my innocence, a petition to the heavenly king” (87-8).

  14. Influences on Western Writers • William Butler Yeats • Ezra Pound • Bertolt Brecht

  15. Test Your Knowledge Chinese, Japanese, and Korean drama share all of the following similarities except _____. • a. they depend on stock characters • b. works are usually anonymous • c. actors begin performing as young children • d. they combine singing, chant, dance, and music

  16. Test Your Knowledge Which of the following were early supporters of Japanese Noh drama? • a. samurai • b. royalty • c. commoners • d. shoguns

  17. Test Your Knowledge East Asian literary traditions began with a focus on ___________. • a. courtly romances • b. drama • c. lyric poetry • d. epic

  18. Test Your Knowledge Which of the following is a famous modern Western author who was deeply influenced by East Asian drama? • a. William Blake • b. Joseph Conrad • c. John Keats • d. Bertolt Brecht

  19. This concludes the Lecture PowerPoint presentation forThe Norton Anthology Of World Literature

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