Product Description: This book is devoted to the Japanese Noh plays in the fourth group, a colorful assembly of some 90 "miscellaneous Noh" performed fourth in a formal five-Noh program after the climax of the day's entertainment. While its predecessor (Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group) deals with the first four of the nine subgroups into which the fourth-group Noh are divided, Troubled Souls includes six masterpieces chosen from the five remaining subgroups, which deal with fiendish women, mad persons, maskless samurai, street artists, and outcasts...read more

Product Description: The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire was written. Some of the finest plays were inspired by the eleventh-century masterpiece of court literature, The Tale of Genji...read more