Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater

by Susan Blakeley Klein

Dancing the Dharma examines the theory and practice of allegory by exploring a select group of medieval Japanese noh plays and treatises. Susan Blakeley Klein demonstrates how medieval esoteric commentaries on the tenth-century poem-tale Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) and the first imperial waka poetry anthology Kokin wakashū influenced the plots, characters, imagery, and rhetorical structure of seven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674247841
• ISBN13: 9780674247840
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"