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  • Japanese Tales

    by Royall Tyler ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan—tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese civilization. They ably balance the lyrical and the dramatic, the ribald and the profound, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Japanese No Dramas

    by Royall Tyler ...
    Translated by Royall Tyler ...
    Japanese nõ theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, the dramas address many subjects, but the idea of 'form' is more central than 'meaning' and their structure is always ritualized. Selected for their literary merit, the twenty ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity

    by Royall Tyler ...
    In this annotated translation and study of an early fourteenth-century Japanese devotional picture scroll set, Royall Tyler illuminates the complex relationships between medieval Japanese religion and politics, text, and art. The Kasuga Gongen genki ("The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity") mingles text and painting on silk to tell the tale of miraculous events at the Kasuga shrine in Nara, a site ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Contrast

    Exploring social class through wit and satire in early America

    by Royall Tyler ...
    In "The Contrast," Royall Tyler crafts a pioneering comedy that reflects the emerging American identity in the late 18th century. Written in the wake of the American Revolution, the play juxtaposes American and European values through its witty dialogue and engaging character dynamics. Tyler employs sharp social commentary, revealing the tension between traditional British influences and the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dawn of the Warrior Age

    War Tales from Medieval Japan

    by Royall Tyler ...
    The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan’s history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the surrounding years are crucial to medieval Japanese culture and history. In 1156, power began to slip away from the court nobility in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Contrast

    by Royall Tyler ...
    In "The Contrast," Royall Tyler offers a sophisticated exploration of early American society through the lens of comedy and social commentary. Set against the burgeoning backdrop of the United States post-independence, the play ingeniously juxtaposes the character types of the refined, cosmopolitan individual with that of the rustic, unpolished American. Tyler's sharp wit and clever dialogue evoke ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Contrast

    Enriched edition. A Satirical Glimpse into Early American Society and Culture

    by Royall Tyler, Samantha Watts ...
    In "The Contrast," Royall Tyler presents a pioneering work of American theater that juxtaposes the ideals of American republicanism with the complexities of social customs in the late 18th century. Rich in its characterization and imbued with sharp comedic elements, the play navigates the dynamics between the simply honorable and the pretentious elite. Tyler's clever dialogue and satirical lens ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Algerine Captive

    or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill

    by Royall Tyler ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious exposé of the horrors of the slave ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Contrast

    by Royall Tyler ...
    THE 'Contrast' was the first American play ever performed in public by a company of professional actors. Several plays by native authors had been previously published, the more noteworthy being the 'Prince of Parthia,' a tragedy by Thomas Godfrey of Philadelphia, which was probably written, and was offered to Hallam's company in 1759 (but not pro- duced), and was printed in 1765, two years after ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Contrast

    Enriched edition.

    by Royall Tyler, Lance Thomas ...
    In "The Contrast," Royall Tyler deftly employs witty dialogue and sharp social commentary to explore the tensions between urban sophistication and rural simplicity in early American society. Written in 1787, this pioneering comedic play engages with the nascent issues of American identity, class distinction, and the clash between Enlightenment ideals and the realities of frontier life. Tyler's ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Contrast

    by Royall Tyler ...
    The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before. Royall uses the form to satirize Americans who follow British fashions and indulge in 'British vices'. Thus, the play ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tale of the Heike

    The Tale of the Heike is Japan's great martial epic; a masterpiece of world literature and the progenitor of all samurai stories, now in a major and groundbreaking new translation by Royall Tyler, acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji. First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early fourteenth century, The Tale of the Heike is Japan's Iliad - a grand-scale depiction of the wars between ... Read more

    $9.99 USD