FIVE MODERN NOH PLAYS 近代能楽集(英文版)TUTTLE CLASSICS

"""Five Modern Noh Plays"" brilliantly revives a great art form that has long fascinated audiences and readers throughout the world. In his introduction, Donald Keene calls these the first genuinely successful modern Noh plays and adds, ""If the medium is given a new lease on life it will be because of Mishima and his work."" 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. It includes following plays: Sotoba Komachi, The Damask Drum, Kantan, The Lady Aoi, and Hanjo."