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#262: GETTING TO NŌ. “The Japanese nō theatre,” Royall Tyler writes, “is one of the great achievements of civilization. No art is more sophisticated than this intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, nor does any uphold higher ideals. Nō plays, like those of other theatres, were written to be performed, but some can stand as literature beside any play ever put between the covers of a book. The aim of Japanese Nō Dramas is to demonstrate that this is
