The Stigmatized Nô Players and the Dance of the Heavenly Maiden

Beneath the surface of a theatrical aesthete, Zeami—a fourteenth through fifteenth century nô theorist and dramatist—hid an ambivalent aspiration for the imaginary demonic creatures known as “oni,” which represent moral and spiritual defilement. Sarah Dillon’s analytical concept of “palimpsest” is i...

The International Journal of Arts Theory and History

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