Name: Five Modern No Plays
ISBN: 9780307473110

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Why This Clicks

No, Renewed

These five plays keep No’s inner spirit while making its form strikingly modern and direct.

Come here for

The meeting of Japanese theatrical tradition and modern writing
Plays that remain intelligible beyond the stage

Expect

Five No plays by Yukio Mishima
Traditional style with contemporary relevance

Book Details

Authors: Yukio Mishima
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: December 1, 2009
Format: Paperback
Theme: Japanese Plays · Japanese Literary Collections
Reading lane: Japanese Plays

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Japanese Plays
Japanese Literary Collections
How Cultures Work

About This Book

Five No plays—one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world—from one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers. • "Mishima's is a wonderful, astonishing, and frightening creative energy." — The New York Times Magazine The late Yukio Mishima infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct, and intelligible that they could, as he suggested, be played on...

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Five No plays—one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world—from one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers. • "Mishima's is a wonderful, astonishing, and frightening creative energy." — The New York Times Magazine The late Yukio Mishima infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct, and intelligible that they could, as he suggested, be played on a bench in Central Park. Here are five of his No plays, stunning in their contemporary nature and relevance—and finally made available again for readers to enjoy.