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1878–1944 Canada

Zoe Kincaid Penlington (2 March 1878 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian-born journalist and drama critic based in Tokyo from 1908 to 1941. She was the author of Kabuki: The Popular Stage in Japan (1925), the first English-language study of kabuki.

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"In the No the world of the real is left behind and the audience enters into a land of imagination; the face of the actor would clash with the non-realistic material of the play and the treatment."

"The long procession of priests in picturesque robes, and the group of feudal lords in their large ceremonial court costumes of many colors, made a memorable stage picture, and one, indeed, that the most extravagant of motion picture scenes might well emulate."

" A more disciplined stage than that of the Imperial can hardly be duplicated in any of the world's theater centers. The present repertory company has played together since the founding of the theater, and many of the younger actors have been associated with it since childhood."

"Kabuki is most distinguished when it deals with the weird and grotesque, and the American visitor may not be at all surprised if among the insubstantial stage creations of the Japanese he becomes acquainted with the spirit of a cherry tree, or the transformation of a maid into a fox or a lion."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zoe Kincaid Penlington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.