Work: Japanese Nō Drama
Kinuta -- The Fulling Block
Another wrongful clinging theme: woman, in her clinging to the hurt and hate of abandonment, rages even on the side of death for that which she has lost. The introduction to the play is very helpful, though I don't see how the play could be deemed complete with only the first part, as Tyler indicates is believed by many critics. There is no release without the second part. I think back about Ray Bradbury's advice to the writer: sicken me not without leading me to the ship's rail. Zeami does that when he allows the ghost to face her husband, or vice versa. No one wants to think a spirit is doomed to hell, and by facing her husband, there is a sense of transcendence.
On to the next play...
Till later...
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