Five Modern No Plays

Five Modern No Plays
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780307473110
ISBN-13 : 0307473112
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Book Synopsis Five Modern No Plays by : Yukio Mishima

Download or read book Five Modern No Plays written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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