The Lady Aoi

The Lady Aoi
Written byYukio Mishima
Original languageJapanese
GenreNoh
SettingA hospital in modern Japan

The Lady Aoi is a play written by Yukio Mishima in 1954, which appears in his Five Modern Noh Plays. It modernizes the noh drama Aoi no Ue.[1]

English Version

Donald Keene has translated this play into English.

Notable productions

Bahram Beyzai produced this play in Persian in Tehran in 1998.

References

  1. ^ Barnes, Nancy J. (1989). "Lady Rokujō's Ghost: Spirit Possession, Buddhism, and Healing in Japanese Literature". Literature and Medicine. 8: 106–121. doi:10.1353/lm.2011.0101. S2CID 932296. Project MUSE 376707.
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