The Major Plays of Chikamatsu

by Chikamatsu Monzaemon

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Donald Keene, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, has written, edited, or translated more than thirty books, many of them published by Columbia University Press. Keene has received numerous honors in both the United States and Japan, and was recently elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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Includes a large enough selection of Chikamatsu's work to show it is not all typified by the tragic sewamono; there is one jidaimono, Coxinga, and a sewamonmo with a rather improable happy ending, The Uprooted Pine, as well as the better-known domestic tragedies like the Suicides at Sonozaki and the Courier for Hell.

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