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Article: Japanese Noh and Kyogen plays: staging dichotomy.
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- Comparative Drama
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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The Noh and Kyogen forms of Japanese theater were perfected during the Muromachi period (1336-1568) and (combined as Nogaku) they comprise the Japanese traditional aristocratic theater still being performed today. Although they evolved alongside each other, sharing various theatrical elements and being performed together on the same stage, they are separate forms. Their actors' training programs, which usually pass from generation to generation within a family, are different, and actors of one form do not perform the other. Noh (literally, "skill or ability"), the lyrical traditional Japanese theater, draws its material from many sources and its form from ritual and folk ...
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