Pining Wind

A Cycle of Nō Plays

Royall Tyler translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Published:31st Mar '10

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Pining Wind cover

Translations of 19 noh and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of noh in the original.

Translations of 19 nô and nine kyôgen plays seeking to "produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of nô in the original.

- Susan Matisoff (Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japan

ISBN: 9780939657179

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm

Weight: 454g

198 pages