Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams: Twenty Plays from the Nō Tradition by Royall Tyler

Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams: Twenty Plays from the Nō Tradition

Royall Tyler

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Nō drama, which integrates speech, song, dance, music, mask, and costume into a distinctive art form, is among Japan’s most revered cultural traditions. It gained popularity in the fourteenth century, when the actor and playwright Zeami (1363–1443...

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