Further Reading
- Hoff, Frank. "Seeing and Being Seen: The Mirror of Performance." In Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan, edited by James H. Sanford, William R. LaFleur, and Masatoshi Nagatomi, pp. 131-48. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. (Explores Zeami's views on the relationship between actor and audience in performances of Nō.)
- Ishii, Tatsuro. “Zeami on Performance.” Theatre Research International n.s. 8, no. 3 (autumn 1983): 190-206. (Analyzes Zeami's theories on the principles of effective nō performance.)
- Keene, Donald, and Royall Tyler, eds. Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970, 336 p. (Includes Keene's essay “The Conventions of the Nō Drama,” which discusses the difficulties in establishing a canon of Zeami's works, as well as six of Zeami's plays with brief introductions.)
- LaFleur, William R. "Zeami's Buddhism: Cosmology and Dialectic in No Drama." In The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan, pp. 116-32. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983. (Traces the influence of Zen Buddhism on Zeami's art and thought.)
- Rimer, J. Thomas, and Yamazaki Masakazu, trans. On the Art of Nō Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1984, 298 p. (Includes translations of Zeami's treatises, essays on the background of the treatises, and Zeami's artistic theories. Features English-Japanese and Japanese-English glossaries and a bibliography.)
- Sata, Megumi. "Aristotle's Poetics and Zeami's Teachings on Style and the Flower." Asian Theatre Journal* 6, No. 1 (Spring 1989): 47-56. (Compares these two superb theatrical treatises to which we owe much of our knowledge of tragedy and nō.)
- Shigenori Nagatomo. "Zeami's Conception of Freedom." Philosophy East and West 31, No. 4 (October 1981): 401-16. (Examines Zeami's theoretical writings to elucidate the playwright's definition of freedom as something that is achieved through artistic training.)
- Tatsuro Ishii. "Zeami's Mature Thoughts on Acting." Theatre Research International 12, No. 2 (Summer 1987): 110-23. (Scrutinizes Zeami's theoretical essays, which contain the nucleus of his concepts on acting and performance based on his own experience and deep insights as a thinker, actor, director, and playwright.)
- Ueda, Makoto. "The Implications of the Noh Drama." Sewanee Review LXIX, No. 3 (July-September 1961): 367-74. (Discusses the theme of sin and salvation common to many No dramas.)
- Ueda, Makoto. “Zeami on Art: A Chapter for the History of Japanese Aesthetics.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 20, no. 1 (fall 1961): 73-9. (Delineates Zeami's views on the nature and technique of nō, particularly the concept of yūgen.)
- Waley, Arthur. Introduction to The Nō Plays of Japan, pp. 15-55. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1921, 319 p. (Surveys the origin, development, and characteristic features of No, with particular reference to Zeami's artistic theories.)
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