The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No

By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form. While using the methods of a classicist to increase our understanding of no as literary texts, she also demonstrates that the fifteenth-century treatises of Zeami–an important playwright, actor,