Zeami Motokiyo (1364-1443):

Noh Theatre

Recommended Background Texts:

• Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco & Ezra Pound, The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (1959) PL887 .F45 1959
  
• Hare, Thomas Blenman, Zeami's Style : The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo (1986) PL792.S4 Z72 1986 .
  
• Keene,Donald, No and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre (1990) PN2924.5.N6 K38 1990
  
• -----, No: The Classical Theatre of Japan (1973) PN2924.5.N6 K4 1973
  
• -----, Twenty Plays of the No Theatre (1970) PL782.E5 K4
  
• O'Neill, P. G. (Patrick Geoffrey), Early No Drama: Its Background, Character, and Development (1974) PN2924.5.N6 O48 1974
  
• Rimer, J. Thomas & Yamazaki Masakazu, On the Art of the No Drama : The Major Treatises of Zeami (1984) PN2924.5.N6 Z4213 1984
  
• Shinkokai, Nippon Gakujutsu, The Noh Drama (1960) PL888 .N5 1960
  
• Tyler, Royall, Japanese No Dramas (1992) (on order)
  
• Waley, Arthur, The No Plays of Japan (1976) PL782.E5 W3 1976
• Yasuda, Kenneth, Masterworks of the No Theater (1989) PL782.E5M27 1989

Audiovisual:

• Noh Theater. Video Cassette: 17 min. Media Collection: 1274
  
• Noh: The Classical Theater of Japan (1980). Video Cassette: 29 min. Media Collection: 1276
  

Other Web Sites:

Noh and Kyogen Theatre (background, history, images, a very nice and useful site)