Research Guides: Atsumori: Articles

Articles

"Japanese Noh and Kyogen plays: staging dichotomy" by Zvika Serper
Compares the thematic and dramatic elements of Noh and Kyogen plays, including an analysis of the contrasting urges in Atsumori.
"Tragedy and Salvation in the Floating World: Chikamatsu's Double Suicide Drama as Millenarian Discourse" by Steven Heine
Examines the cultural context and history of the lover's double suicide (shinju) and its use in Chikamatsu's work and in other Japanese drama.
"Warrior noh: Konparu Zenpō and the ritual performance of shura plays" by Eric Rath
Although only some 6 per cent of the noh plays in the modern repertoire are shura plays, pieces that feature the ghosts of suffering warriors, these works are synonymous with ‘warrior noh’, and as a group they form one of the five main categories of plays. Prior studies have looked to the theoretical writings of noh's founder, Zeami (d. 1443), to explain why shura plays, though few in number, have come to represent the genre of warrior plays. However, this article contends that the theories of the actor and playwright Konparu Zenpō (1454–1532?) offer more persuasive reasons why shura plays became equated with warrior noh.

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