THE CONTRAST
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This e-book contains the text of The Contrast, extracted from Representative Plays by American Dramatists: Vol 1, . Comments and background to all the plays, and links to the other plays are available here.
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ROYALL TYLER
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PROLOGUE
CHARACTERS
ACT I.
ACT II.
ACT III.
ACT IV.
ACT V.
Spelling as in the original has been preserved.
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William Dunlap is considered the father of the American Theat
“Which English translation of The Tale of Genji should I read?”
So you want to read the world’s oldest novel, which is over a thousand pages, and you don’t read Japanese.
No problem.
There are four complete English versions of Murasaki Shikibu’s thousand-year-old episodic Buddhist tale of love and loss in Heian Japan. The novel has also been abridged and published in incomplete translations as well, so there’s definitely some potential for confusion. Keep reading to learn how to choose an edition that’s right for you.
The Tale of Genji: Translations
There are four major, complete English translations of The Tale of Genji, shown below in chronological order along with three partial translations. They are all in print.
- – Suematso Kencho (partial)
- – Arthur Waley
- – Edward G. Seidensticker
- – Helen Craig McCullough (partial)
- – Royall Tyler
- – Kazuyuki Hijiya (partial)
- – Dennis Washburn
Below are details about each of these English translations.
The Tale of Genji: the “Names” of the Characters
The names used to refer to the characters in the English translations are variations on traditional names that readers have assigned to the charact
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Born in England in , I was educated in the US and France. During my academic career I specialized in Japanese literature. My last teaching position, after stints in Canada, the US, and Norway, was at the Australian National University in Canberra. After that I retired with my wife to a farm in in New South Wales. We've bred alpacas here for over twenty years, although our herd is smaller than it used to be. And I've continued to publish books. In summer we see blue-tongue skinks--a big, slow lizard that really does have a blue tongue. So I named my own book imprint (Blue-Tongue Books) after one that scrabbled at my window, wanting to come in.
I'm descended from two other authors named Royall Tyler, both listed on Goodreads and Amazon. TBorn in England in , I was educated in the US and France. During my academic career I specialized in Japanese literature. My last teaching position, after stints in Canada, the US, and Norway, was at the Australian National University in Canberra. After that I retired with my wife to a farm in in New South Wales. We
Having considered a couple of twentieth-century translations of Murasaki Shikibu&#;s novel The Tale of Genji, we&#;re ready to move on and take a closer look at the first offering from this century. We&#;ve already examined a number of differing approaches, and today&#;s choice represents yet another change in direction, with a translation that, on occasion, makes the reader work for their enjoyment. It&#;s an interesting development, but the big question here, of course, is whether it&#;s worth the effort. Well, there&#;s only one way to find out &#; please, come this way&#;
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Royall Tyler is another big-name Japanese-to-English literary translator, and I&#;ve tried his work on several occasions, enjoying (among other books) The Tale of the Heike and The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity. If there&#;s anything like a home-town favourite in these Genji Olympics, then the Tyler Genji must be it, and not just because of Tyler&#;s residence in Australia. This is the edition I own, and my recent reread proved to be the impetus for this little project, meaning it had a slight advantage heading into the &#;competition&#;.
This is a new Tale, then, for the ne
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