Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater by Lim Beng Choo (review)

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Reviewed by: Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater by Lim Beng Choo Elizabeth Oyler (bio) Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater. By Lim Beng Choo. Cornell East Asia Program, Ithaca, 2012; distributed by University of Hawai‘i Press. xxviii, 241 pages. $55.00, cloth; $39.00, paper. The nō theater familiar to today’s audiences is most closely associated with the aesthetics, styles, and structures favored by its earliest playwrights and theorists, particularly Zeami (ca. 1363–ca. 1443), who famously crafted a culturally valued art from folk and ritual performance traditions. When the Tokugawa shogunate co-opted nō as a ritual art in the early seventeenth century, Zeami’s were the ideals it embraced in creating the canon of about two hundred plays that has lasted until today. Nō’s inception and its codification are the salient moments used to describe the arc of nō’s development as taught in most college classrooms: the history of nō i

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