THTR 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese Aesthetics, Speaking Parts
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1192: empower gives up power to shogun- military dictator. Samurai were distinguished by getting to wear 2 swords. Later on there was the creation of gangs for theatre and they made performances to perform during festivals. The shogun system- the most powerful/figure head positions, middle leaders/samurai, then comes peasants, merchants, 1338- the samurai falls out of the social order, and he leaves his family to become a. The strongest person the family was not part of the family unit for long. He devoted his hand to studying that of no theatre. Zeami is known to ding a poetic quality to known theatre. Yuen (graceful beauty)- graceful beauty, in seeing a performer invokes the audiencce again. Kami mono-plays about deities, usually in praise of gods. Katsura mono- plays about women, katsura translates to wig. Genzai ono- plays about people in the present. Kirinomono- plays about demons, devils or other supernatural beings.
