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EZRA POUND AND THE JAPANESE NOH PLAYS
Abstract
Despite great personal linguistic deficiencies, Ezra Pound accepted the task of completing the translation of the Japanese Noh plays left unfinished by Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908), an American scholar educated at Harvard, who spent a number of years in Japan, and became an authority of Japanese arts and literature. Noh is a form of drama, written partly in prose and partly in verse, dating from the late fourteenth century and consisting of singing, dialogue and dancing, with the use of masks and a symbolic stage as its most unique characteristics. Since the publication of the English translation of the fifteen Noh plays in 1917, critics--including Pound himself--have expressed dissatisfaction with the work, pointing out suchflaws as misunderstandings, inaccuracies and distortions
Subject Area
Modern literature|Literature
Recommended Citation
TSUKUI, NOBOKU, "EZRA POUND AND THE JAPANESE NOH PLAYS" (1967). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI6715842.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI6715842