Five Modern No Plays
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Paperback · December 1, 2009
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.
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- Who it’s for
- These five plays keep No’s inner spirit while making its form strikingly modern and direct.
- Themes
- Modernized No theater
- Genres
- Japanese Plays, Japanese Literary Collections
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• "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.
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
Where it sits
| Japanese Plays | 97% |
|---|---|
| Japanese Literary Collections | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Japanese Plays
- Japanese Literary Collections
- How Cultures Work
- Authors
- Yukio Mishima
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- December 1, 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Modernized No theater
- Reading lane
- Japanese Plays