Five Modern No Plays -- Yukio Mishima

<b>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." --<i>The New York Times Magazine<br></i></b><br>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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Yukio Mishima<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 12/01/2009<br><b>Pages:</b> 224<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.52lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.68d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780307473110<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Yukio Mishima</b> was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University's School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, <i>The Forest in Full Bloom</i>, appeared in 1944. He established himself as a major author with <i>Confessions of a Mask </i>(1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, <i>The Sea of Fertility</i> tetralogy--which contains the novels <i>Spring Snow</i> (1969), <i>Runaway Horses</i> (1969),