Five Modern No Plays by Yukio Mishima

Five Modern No Plays by Yukio Mishima

Five Modern Noh Plays brilliantly revives a great art form that has long fascinated audiences and readers throughout the world.

As long ago as 1916 William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound were excitedly discovering Noh plays. In 1922 Arthur Waley's fine translations appeared in a collection titled The Noh Plays of Japan. Since then, interest has grown steadily in this unique art form.

At the heart of Noh lies the accidental encounter through which the workings of Fate are revealed. Often one of the persons is not what he or she seems to be: perhaps a ghost or a person fallen from high estate. Mishima has been marvelously successful in preserving the weird and haunting mood of classical Noh, but his characters and situations have the directness and hardness of an encounter on a city street.

The emotion of these plays is so communicable that one can imagine them staged anywhere in the world. Or they can be read and reread in Donald Keene's excellent translation.

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ISBN 13	9780307473110
ISBN 10	0307473112
Title	Five Modern No Plays
Author	Yukio Mishima
Series	Vintage International
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-12-01
Number of pages	224
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